Guadiz is back as LTFRB chief
By Nidz Godino
"I pledge to uphold highest standards of integrity, transparency, and efficiency in leading LTFRB…we will work tirelessly to address pressing issues and challenges in transportation sector, striving to improve lives of Filipino people by providing safe, reliable, and accessible public transportation services," embattled Teofilo Guadiz III is back at helm of Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board after Malacañang reinstated him as LTFRB chairman.
Guadiz has been reinstated barely month after he was suspended by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. due to corruption allegations that were later withdrawn.
Transport Secretary Jaime Bautista signed special order reinstating Guadiz on Nov. 3.
Special order also repealed appointment of Mercy Paras Leynes as officer-in-charge of LTFRB.
"There stands no reason to place Chairman Guadiz under preventive suspension unless supervening event maintaining same accusations against him are put forth before OP ,Office of the President," Office of the Executive Secretary said in statement.This development comes as Jeff Tumbado, former head executive assistant of Guadiz, signed affidavit of recantation just two days after claiming that his former boss was involved in multi-million-peso anomalies involving franchises and different transactions within LTFRB.
Tumbado had also alleged corruption could have reached Department of Transportation and Malacañang.
Tumbado claimed on Oct. 9t he acted as conduit and that some government officials were being paid P5 million in exchange for approval of franchises or securing routes and special permits.
In an affidavit signed on Oct. 11, Tumbado said his claims were "borne out of impulse, irrational thinking, misjudgment and poor decision making."
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