{"id":54160,"date":"2015-07-03T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54160"},"modified":"2015-07-03T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:06:15","slug":"after-binays-suspension-makati-city-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/03\/after-binays-suspension-makati-city-back-to-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"After Binay\u2019s suspension, Makati City back to normal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Suspended Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay (left) with Acting Makati Mayor Romulo “Kid” Pe\u00f1a (Photo courtesy of Flickr\/Romulo Pe\u00f1a)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 After Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin \u201cJunjun\u201d Binay\u2019s second suspension order has been served, Makati City is now back to business as usual with Makati Vice Mayor Romulo \u201cKid\u201d Pe\u00f1a taking over the city\u2019s top post.<\/p>\n

On his first day as acting mayor, Pe\u00f1a opts to first visit several offices in the city hall to check that administrative operations and public services remain uninterrupted.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy only appeal [to city hall heads and officials] is to cooperate with me because my only intention as acting mayor is to ensure that flow of basic services will continue,\u201d Pe\u00f1a said in a Manila Bulletin report.<\/p>\n

After making rounds in city hall offices, Pe\u00f1a signs several pending memorandums. He also orders city hall entrances to be opened. The city hall has then been back to normal.<\/p>\n

The acting mayor vows to do field work and meet several department heads in the coming days. Several department officials have already paid courtesy calls on him.<\/p>\n

Ground floor office<\/strong><\/p>\n

While temporarily occupying the city\u2019s top post, Pe\u00f1a chooses to have his office located in the city hall\u2019s ground floor. He has first set up a table and chair in the floor\u2019s open area near the main entrance. Later on, he converts a room as his office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want people who enter and go out of the city hall to see me at work,\u201d he said, explaining why he holds office at the building\u2019s ground floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve noticed some of the closed circuit television cameras were turned off, no one is monitoring my moves and it feels good,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Binay\u2019s suspension<\/strong><\/p>\n

With regards to Binay, Pe\u00f1a hopes that he would get to talk to the suspended mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe (Binay and I) have not been in speaking terms but I am open to talk to him anytime if there can be any chance,\u201d the acting mayor said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) President Vicente Joyas claims that Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales may have prejudged Binay as evidences to corruption allegations against him have not yet been fully evaluated.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can Mayor Junjun Binay expect a fair judgment when Ombudsman Morales categorically pronounced him guilty even before the evidence are carefully evaluated?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a clear case of prejudgment. A judge is not allowed to discuss in public the merits of the cases pending before him or her. Ombudsman Morales is exercising a quasi-judicial function, necessarily the rule must apply to her,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 After Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin \u201cJunjun\u201d Binay\u2019s second suspension order has been served, Makati City is now back …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":54161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,483],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-54160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54160","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=54160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}