The Negros Oriental State University Board of Regents issued another 90-day preventive suspension order to school president Don Vicente Real, based on another complaint filed against him for a multi-million-peso campus project.
NORSU OIC President Peter Dayot said Thursday that BOR Resolution No. 29, series of 2015, places Real under preventive suspension for 90 days.
Copies of the resolution, furnished by the media, showed that the Board resolved in its regular meeting Jan. 21 to adopt the recommendations of the Office of the Solicitor General in the case of the Home Management/Food Technology building project, worth P10 million. It was also resolved that Real be charged with grave misconduct and gross insubordination, the resolution added.
Meanwhile, a formal investigation committee will be created to investigate the HM/FT Building Project and that the BOR chair, Commissioner Minella Alarcon of the Commission on Higher Education, be given the authority to appoint the members of the committee, and designate the OSG for the prosecution of the charges.
The complaint said Real allegedly pursued the public bidding of the Major Repair of HM Building, the execution of the Contract of Agreement dated September 30, 2013 with VESA Engineering and Construction, he signed and authorized the release of funds to VESA” allegedly without prior approval and authority of the NORSU Board.
This is the second 90-day preventive suspension imposed by the BOR on Real.
The first was on allegations of alleged overpricing of the P6.9 million speech laboratory in the NORSU Bayawan-Sta. Catalina campus in southern Negros Oriental.
Real was suspended Oct. 7, 2014, and would have returned to work, starting yesterday.
On Thursday, a team from NORSU went to Bais City to serve the new Resolution to Real but a commotion arose after NORSU officials, headed by the school’s chief security officer Rosalinda Abellon, got into a confrontation with Real’s wife, children, family members and supporters.
Nobody personally received the copy of the resolution, but Abellon said they believe it was fully served according to the law.
Dayot remains the OIC President, the resolution added. (PNA)
