OCT. 3, 2024 was the third day of filing of certificates of candidacy for the 2025 elections. It was also the day the Cebuano public learned that the incumbent mayors of two of Cebu's three highly urbanized cities had been dismissed from service by the Ombudsman. Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama, who had been on a six-month preventive suspension since May, and Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes, who only last month started serving a one-year suspension, had been dismissed!
Mayor Rama was preventively suspended over a case of four City Hall employees who were unceremoniously reassigned and left unpaid for months. The dismissal order stems from Cebu City Hall's hiring two brothers of Rama's wife. Nepotism, the Ombudsman concluded.
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