ON September 5, Ombudsman Samuel Martires issued what is one of the most embarrassingly faulty and ill-considered rulings ever to come out of the Office of the Ombudsman.
He ordered the six-month preventive suspension of Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Monalisa Dimalanta at the behest of the National Association of Electric Consumers for Reform Inc. , which is one of those insufferable, self-appointed organizations posing as consumer advocates even though no one asked or wants them to.
The biggest and dumbest flaw in the Ombudsman's order is, of course, his ignorance or forgetfulness that the ERC is not one person, as his office is, but a commission. It says so in the name. The ERC chairman's signature on orders or interactions with other government agencies, industries under the ERC's purview, the media, or anyone while she's on the clock is, by legal definition, only as the designated representative of the commission, which acts collegially.
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