MALACAÑANG

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 116

CREATING AN AD-HOC COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE ADMINISTRATIVE CHARGES AGAINST MR. SANTIAGO SIMPAS

A Committee in the Office of the Solicitor General is hereby created to investigate the administrative charges filed by Mr. Jaime Abolencia, et al., against Santiago Simpas, President, Leyte Institute of Technology, Tacloban City, for various irregularities ranging, among others, from alleged abuse of authority, serious misconduct, oppression, harassment, gross violation of civil service laws, notoriously disgraceful and immoral conduct, ignorance of the law, overpricing of purchases of equipment to payroll padding.

The Committee shall be composed of a Chairman and two (2) members to be designated by the Solicitor General.

For investigation purposes, the Committee is hereby granted all the powers of an investigating body under Sections 71 and 580 of the Revised Administrative Code, including the power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and take testimony or evidence relevant to the investigation.

The Committee is hereby empowered to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government for such assistance as it may need in the discharge of its functions.

The Committee shall submit its report and recommendation to the President of the Philippines as soon as possible.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 21st day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine.

(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.

Executive Secretary

Source: Malacañang Records Office

Office of the President of the Philippines. (1989). [Administrative Order Nos. : 1 Р150]. Manila : Malaca̱ang Records Office.