Hontiveros said Jeffrey Dale Ignacio, who turned state witness by testifying how BI officials institutionalized corruption in the agency, has been included in the suspension order.
The head of the Senate Committee on Women, Children, and Gender Equality, however, said that she is gratified to see the Ombudsman imposing the six-month preventive suspension without pay on the 44 BI personnel and officials involved in the said illegal scheme saying it is a “welcome and necessary development” in the Senate panel’s own investigation.
“Nonetheless, I would like to thank Ombudsman Samuel Martires for acting on the results of our investigation, and I trust that his office will also go after the big fish — including those who are no longer in the BI and cannot be the subject of preventive suspension,” she added. The senator pointed out that such a scheme had “only endangered our borders and brought harm to our women and children.”
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