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ASSISTANT Cebu City Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro has brought her fight with Bureau of Immigration in Central Visayas (BI-7) director Casimiro Madarang III to Malacañang.
In a letter to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Castro questioned why Madarang was designated as BI-7 director.
“(I am) constrained to write this letter-complaint because of the injustice and unfair practice which cause grave discouragement among the employees who suffered in silence since the time Mr. Casimiro Madarang applied and later appointed and designated in concurrent capacity as Alien Control Officer and Regional Director Region 7 of Cebu Immigration District Office, Mandaue City,” said Castro in a letter dated June 22.
Madarang just brushed aside Castro’s letter.
“Pasagdi na lang na siya. Iya naman ko gikasuhan sa Ombudsman, Prosecutors’ Office, ug sa Department of Justice. (Just let her be. She already filed complaints against me at the Ombudsman, the Prosecutor’s Office, and the Department of Justice),” the BI-7 director said.
Castro claimed that Madarang was not qualified to be director because of “dubious circumstances,” including a questionable educational attainment, a case for which is pending before the Cebu City Prosecutors’ Office and the Office of the Visayas Ombudsman.
Castro pointed to the cases pending against Madarang, including falsification of public documents, libel, usurpation of official function, grave misconduct, and abuse of authority, among others.
Castro and Madarang have been filing charges against each other in court and at the Ombudsman.
“Mr. Madarang has defrauded the government into hiring him. This dishonesty is of unspeakable dimension and he should not be allowed to stay in the office any minute longer,” Castro said.
She said Madarang’s appointment to government office was a violation of Article 244 of the Revised Penal Code, which states that “any public officer who shall knowingly nominate or appoint to any public office any person lacking the legal qualifications therefor, shall suffer the penalty of arresto mayor or one month to six months and a fine not exceeding P1,000.”
