While in the bus I saw the tv news, Ate Edna Centeno, City Accountant of Caloocan City, my cousin was being charged with Graft and Corruption case. I should have been in that problem now had I accepted the offer to be the City Accountant in 1986. I really think things ahead of my time. Bata pa ako ganoon na akong mag-isip...i decide not for today but for the future. Noon, my name was put in the list to be interviewed by then Mayor Robles for the post of the City Accountant. My padrinos were briefing me to give up Asistio so I could have the post, talagang gustung gusto nila akong maging City Accountant because I held the highest CPA board score then, ang mismong head ng personnel ang push ng push para ako ma promote ng ma promote, how I remember Mrs. Lucina Soriano. In the middle of interview, I was asked by Mayor Robles, "where is your loyalty,I know your father to be a follower of Asistio? I answered him, I DO NOT BITE THE HANDS THAT FEED ME, and we both laugh out loud, nagkaintindihan kaming dalawa .
He was so fascinated with our interview, that a member of the panel really regretted that I answered that way, dahil tawa talaga ng tawa si Mayor Robles during the interview. Ang mother ko ay proud na proud kahit hindi ako ang napiling City Accountant kasi ang isa pala sa mga taong naroon during the interview was her kababata sa Grace park, Caloocan City. Sabi nung kababata niya,"anak mo pala yun?" sabi niya "oo, bakit? " ang galing galing sumagot tuwang tuwa si Mayor Robles kaso pinanindigan ang pagiging Asistio eh". I told my mother that it was not about politics, it was just my graceful way of saying i do not like the job, kung gustung gusto ko talaga yung trabaho, I would really give up being an Asistio fanatic.
I told my mother that a City Accountant's post is very dangerous, you cannot be free in that post, kung ano ang mayor mo yun ka na rin and I am one person who does not give up her soul for other people. Ako talaga yung taong hindi kayang pumikit para gumawa ng mali, pag mali, mali talaga, so I cannot be an Accountant and I never thought of being one, palagi lang akong auditor or examiner but not an accountant.
Noong nakita ko si Ate, naalala ko ang mga kapwa ko CPA na mga City Accountant na nagtatanong at humihingi ng tulong kay Senador Panfilo Lacson during the 67th PICPA Annual Convention sa Davao City, on their plight, naaawa ako sa mga Accountant, I know how good an accountant is, lahat kami bilang accountant ay tini-train to be persons of highest integrity, we have very conservative principles and we always try to work with utmost professionalism, subalit kaming mga Accountants can never be independent in any sense because we are always employed and we follow the characters of our employers. We are not really independent because we follow the dictates of those who pay us if we are doing public practice. And we are most of all not free when our boss is the Mayor.
Senator Lacson, as I understood, was proposing a bill to exonerate City accountants from liability in accusations against the mayor,( sapagkat laging kasama ang accountant sa mga demanda laban sa mayor) if they can prove that they have exercised the necessary diligence to prohibit the mayor from executing unlawful financial transactions, and if this is really true then, i think my ate Edna can use this proposal as source of defense.
Wala pa man ang batas, gamitin na niya ang probisyon sa ipinapanukalang batas, na magpapawalang bisa sa kaso niya.
Wala pa man ang batas, gamitin na niya ang probisyon sa ipinapanukalang batas, na magpapawalang bisa sa kaso niya.
I know my Ate to be one good soul, sobrang bait, napakabuting kapatid, asawa at anak and of course pasensyosang pinsan. It is her work that needs correction not her person and I pity Accountants in the local government units and I hope a really good law can be drafted to give them room for mental independence, so that they can fight corruption in their own capacity.
Above photos of Senator Panfilo Lacson and your blogger were taken during the 67th Annual National PICPA Convention which was held in SMX Davao City in November 2016. However, I did not ask about Accountants' problems in that forum, I asked him about his plans and programs to minimize graft and corruption in order to help the poor people in the country,
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