The Office of the President is certain to act quickly on the matter involving the hiring and subsequent resignation of absentee Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) employees ostensibly hired by members of the policy-making, seven-member Monetary Board.
This was stressed by BSP governor Eli Remolona before Tuesday Club members meeting at breakfast at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, saying the monetary authorities do not have the power to hire or fire MB members who are appointed on the basis of presidential prerogative.
“Monetary Board members are under the Office of the President, which is dealing with the issue” decisively, Remolona said on why the BSP has neither disciplined nor fired the erring MB members reported to have hired “ghost employees” who enjoy hefty remunerations but have not reported for work for extended periods of time.
According to Remolona, the BSP “is moving as fast as we can” on the matter but act short of disciplining or firing the alleged erring MB members it considers a “presidential matter.”
“We’re doing a post mortem on how and why this happened, to ensure this does not happen again,” he said.
Remolona said the four ghost employees have since resigned as the scandal came to light, as did their supervisors whose identities have not been disclosed in accordance with Civil Service Commission guidelines.
Some of the news outlets have identified the MB members allegedly involved in the scandal and one had been reported to have tendered his resignation just today, Tuesday.
Efforts to confirm the MB member resignation have not been validated thus far.
