{"id":173632,"date":"2018-07-28T01:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T05:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=173632"},"modified":"2018-07-28T01:51:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T05:51:38","slug":"morales-urges-martires-stand-vs-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/28\/morales-urges-martires-stand-vs-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Morales urges Martires to stand vs. corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150553\" style=\"width: 1096px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OMBCarpio-Morales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150553\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OMBCarpio-Morales.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1096\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OMBCarpio-Morales.jpg 1096w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OMBCarpio-Morales-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OMBCarpio-Morales-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OMBCarpio-Morales-1024x888.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1096px) 100vw, 1096px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Retired Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.gov.ph\/index.php?home=1&amp;amp;navId=MQ==&amp;amp;subNavId=ODI=\">Photo: ombudsman.gov.ph<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Retired Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales on Friday urged newly-appointed anti-graft body head Samuel Martires to stand against corruption, pursuant to the mandate of the Office of the Ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p>In her farewell speech, Morales left a message to Martires, as well as to government officials to remain loyal to their duty and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>For Morales, a strong institution is needed to fully eradicate corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect people, whoever will succeed me, to tow the line in the sense that (he) should work hard, work efficiently, with integrity and accountability,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the people of the government, I\u2019d like to remind them again that public office is public trust. You should deserve the trust of the people; you should deserve the respect (of people); should not fail them, not abuse power. In other words, I expect you to be a model of integrity,\u201d Morales added.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Ombudsman showed that they have resolved more than 13,000 cases under Morales&#8217; watch.<\/p>\n<p>From more than 19,000 pending cases in 2011 when Morales assumed as Ombudsman, the number of cases resolved decreased to more than 6,000 only at the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, Martires, a former Supreme Court Associate Justice, greeted and met with the employees of the Office of the Ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p>One of the directives of Martires was that no case would be filed before the Sandiganbayan for as long as he has not formally assumed the post.<\/p>\n<p>Martires thanked God for his appointment to the new post.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed his gratitude to President Rodrigo Duterte for the trust, appointing him as next Ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p>Martires warned the agency&#8217;s employees that he does not want to work with &#8220;hypocrites.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Retired Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales on Friday urged newly-appointed anti-graft body head Samuel Martires to stand against corruption, pursuant to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":150553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}