{"id":163000,"date":"2018-05-07T04:21:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T08:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163000"},"modified":"2018-05-07T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T17:23:10","slug":"roberto-teo-has-long-resigned-from-tieza-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/07\/roberto-teo-has-long-resigned-from-tieza-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Teo has \u2018long resigned’ from TIEZA: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Teo is TIEZA board member, representing Travel and Tours Enterprises, while his wife serves as TIEZA chairperson. (Photo<\/a>: Waterfront Insular Hotel\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) board member Roberto Teo has \u201clong resigned\u201d but only remained in TIEZA because there was no one to replace him, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Mr.Teo, husband of Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo, was dragged into controversy when critics slammed his being TIEZA board member as conflict of interest and nepotism.<\/p>\n

Mr. Teo is TIEZA board member, representing Travel and Tours Enterprises, while his wife serves as TIEZA chairperson. He was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III on Feb. 14, 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Teo was an appointee of President Aquino into TIEZA and he has long tendered his resignation pero wala pa pong kapalit kaya daw po nandodoon pa siya (but he has no replacement that\u2019s why he remained there),\u201d Roque said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n

Roque, however, said that Mr. Teo will no longer be attending meetings to avoid controversy. He did not give further details about the date when Mr. Teo officially tendered his resignation.<\/p>\n

\u201cPero ngayon po daw ata sinabi niya hindi na talaga siya pupunta sa mga meetings. Ang natatakot lang daw po siya ay yung dereliction of duty dahil pag wala pang kapalit baka naman sabihin bakit mo naman binakante? (But I think now he said that he will no longer attend meetings. He said that his fear was to be accused of dereliction of duty because while there\u2019s no replacement, he might be questioned for leaving his post),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Despite leaving his TIEZA post, critics said that Mr. Teo\u2019s appointment as a board member of a subsidiary of Land Bank of the Philippines, the LBP Leasing and Finance Corp. on June 2, 2017, was still conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

This time it was President Rodrigo R. Duterte who appointed Mr. Teo to the Land Bank subsidiary.<\/p>\n

Roque refused to comment since he was not aware of the reported appointment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Presidential spokesperson, I am not aware of appointments even to government-owned and controlled corporations,” Roque said.<\/p>\n

At present, Roque said a replacement for Mr. Teo has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

The controversy hounding the Teos started when the Commission on Audit (COA) said the DOT paid PHP60 million for the ad placement in the PTV 4 show \u201cKilos Pronto\u201d, which is produced and hosted by Secretary Teo\u2019s brothers, Ben and Erwin Tulfo.<\/p>\n

Its findings showed that there was no memorandum of agreement signed to air the ads.<\/p>\n

Teo denied reports that she signed a contract under a production company under her brothers, noting that it was a government-to-government contract that went through bidding.<\/p>\n

She said the ad placements were done at PTV 4\u2019s discretion since her brothers\u2019 show had high ratings.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Secretary Teo\u2019s legal counsel and spokesperson, Ferdinand Topacio, said that the Tulfo brothers\u2019 Bitag Media Unlimited Inc., which runs the \u201cKilos Pronto\u201d program where the ads were placed, have agreed to return the PHP60 million it received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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