ONLY the court can reinstate members of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District’s board of directors who were sacked by the late Cebu City mayor Edgardo Labella back in 2019, not Mayor Michael Rama.“They are having a pending appeal in the court. It is much better that he asks that before the court not anyone else kay as a lawyer we know our procedure,” Cebu City Administrator Collin Rosell said in a phone interview on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, referring to lawyer Amando Virgil Ligutan.On Friday, Nov.
He said that it is already a “settled matter,” reiterating that the power to appoint comes with the power to remove, despite statements from LWUA and the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel asserting the mayor’s lack of authority to remove.
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