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Ex-NBI OIC Distor still on 'floating status'

Published Aug 24, 2022 01:10 pm

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Former National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Officer-in-Charge Eric B. Distor remains on floating status as the Department of Justice (DOJ) has yet to decide whether to keep him at the law enforcement agency.

“Floating pa siya (He is in a floating status),” DOJ Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla said during the Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum on Wednesday, Aug. 24.

Remulla explained that the DOJ has “to determine the legality of his being a co-terminus position.”

Distor, a career NBI official, held the position of assistant director when he was appointed in 2020 by then President Rodrigo R. Duterte as NBI OIC.

Before his term ended, Duterte promoted Distor to senior deputy director while still NBI OIC.

“It is under the Revised Administrative Code, the continuing power to reorganize government rests with the President,” Remulla said.

“So if he (the President) allows it to happen, he can re-organize the government,” he added.

But, he said, the appointment made by the President should be “co-terminus with the appointing power.”

Incumbent NBI Director Medardo G. De Lemos announced last Tuesday, Aug. 23, that he implemented a major reorganization in the agency’s structure “to be more effective and responsive to the increasing demands of investigative and intelligence functions.”

Remulla said that De Lemos did not seek the secretary of justice’s clearance in effecting a reorganization.

“I do not micro-manage the NBI. I will just review the reshuffle,” the secretary said.

“But I have trust and confidence in Director De Lemos. I trust that he will do a good job,” he said.

Under the reorganization, De Lemos designated Deputy Director Antonio M. Pagatpat as the new Deputy Director for Administration (DDA) and Assistant Director Jose Justo S. Yap as officer-in-charge of the Office of the Deputy Director for Operations (ODDO).

NBI spokesperson Ferdinand M. Lavin has been named as acting regional director of the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B composed of the provinces of Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan) regional office.

Under the Office of the DDA-ODDA, De Lemos named Vicente A. De Guzman III as Assistant Director for Comptroller Service (ADCS); lawyer Leo Edwin D. Leuterio as Assistant Director for Human Resource and Management Service (ADHRMS); lawyer Rustico Q. Vigilia as officer-in-charge of the Office of the Assistant Director for Legal Service (OIC-OADLS); and Assistant Regional Director (ARD) Victor V. Lorenzo as officer-in-charge of the Office of the Assistant Director for Information and Communications Technology Service (OIC-OADICTS).

At the ODDO, De Lemos placed three officials, namely: Jose D. Doloiras as Assistant Director for Investigation Service (ADInvS); Assistant Regional Director Roel S. Bolivar as officer-in-charge of the Office of the Assistant Director for Intelligence Service (OADIntS); and Dr. Rommel T. Papa as officer-in-charge of the Office of the Assistant Director for Forensic and Scientific Research Service (OADFSRS).

De Lemos also re-assigned the heads of the bureau’s various regional offices.

Re-assigned were ARD Rommel J. Vallejo who has been designated as acting regional director of the National Capital Region (NCR); lawyer Janet M. Francisco as regional director of the Cordillera Administrative Regional Office (CAR); Hector Eduardo M. Geologo as regional director of Ilocos Regional Office (IRO); Arcelito C. Albao as regional director of the Cagayan Valley Regional Office (CAVRO);

ARD Eleanor Rachel M. Angeles as acting regional director of the Central Luzon Regional Office (CELRO); Angelito DLP. Magno as regional director of CALABARZON; ARD Olivo A. Ramos as acting regional director of Bicol Regional Office (BRO); Manuel George A. Jularbal as regional director of the Western Visayas Regional Office (WEVRO); Rennan Augustus T. Oliva as regional director of the Central Visayas Regional Office (CEVRO);

Emeterio A. Dongallo Jr. as regional director of the Eastern Visayas Regional Office (EVRO); Moises B. Tamayo as acting regional director of the Western Mindanao Regional Office (WEMRO); Patricio S. Bernales Jr. as regional director of the North Eastern Mindanao Regional Office (NEMRO); Gelacio D. Bongngat as regional director of the South Eastern Mindanao Regional Office (SEMRO);

Claro S. De Castro as regional director of the Central Mindanao Regional Office (CEMRO); Sally Hans C. Barbaso as acting regional director of the CARAGA Regional Office; and Victor John Paul H. Ronquillo as regional director of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Regional Office.

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