By Manny Galvez
CABANATUAN
CITY – Two officials of the National Food Authority (NFA) based in Nueva Ecija
and five others were relieved from their posts Thursday in connection with the
misclassification of 32,695 bags of palay.
NFA Region 3 director Amadeo de Guzman
identified the officials as George Roca and Daniel Valenzuela, NFA provincial
manager and assistant manager.
Earlier, five NFA personnel were relieved
from their posts over the same case.
De Guzman said he decided to relieve Roca and
Valenzuela pending the results of an investigation by a fact-finding team.
He clarified that no case has been filed yet
against the two officials.
De Guzman and NFA assistant regional director
Marciano Alvarez will take Roca’s and Valenzuela’s posts in concurrent
capacities, respectively.
The relief of the seven brought to 12 the
total number of sacked NFA personnel.
Relieved earlier were solar dryer engineer
Edmar Torres, quality control officers Cesar Paul de Guia and Adam Rayo, pest
control officer Leo Thereso Ramos and acting provincial quality assurance
officer Jimmy Mallari.
De Guzman said four others would be included
in the investigation to determine their involvement in the misclassification of
stocks.
De Guzman said the relief of Roca and
Valenzuela was ordered by Renan Dalisay, who directed the security and
investigation services department, the internal audit services department and
the technical research and services department to investigate the case.
De Guzman clarified that the 32,695 bags of
palay were not typhoon-damaged, as earlier reported.
“These palay bags were not typhoon-damaged
but were misclassified,” he said, noting instead of being declared as wet, the
bags of palay were made to appear as dry and clean.
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