The Social Security System will be more efficient without quarreling among members of its board, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. said Tuesday.
Roque made this remark a day after President Rodrigo R. Duterte decided not to renew the appointments of SSS Chairman Amando Valdez and Commissioner Jose Gabriel “Pompee” La Viña.
“
Sa tingin ko, kaya pinalitan ’yan ni Presidente, ay dahil nakikita niya na mas magiging efficient
ang SSS
kung walang hidwaan sa board
ng SSS [I think, the reason why the President replaced them, is because he can see that the SSS would be more efficient if there was no quarreling among its board members],” Roque said in a press conference in Tabuk, Kalinga.
Roque assured that operations at the SSS would continue even as the Palace has yet to find replacements for the two officials.
“
Yung management
ng SSS
hindi nabago, patuloy naman ang trabaho diyan sa SSS [The management of the SSS has not changed, operations continue at the SSS],” he added.
Roque did not give any reason for Duterte’s decision not to renew
the appointments of the two SSS officials noting that it was a “presidential prerogative.”
Valdez and La Viña had served in the SSS in a holdover capacity.
The SSS was earlier embroiled in controversy after four of its executives were alleged to be involved in a stock trading mess.
La Viña earlier filed an administrative complaint against SSS Executive vice president for investments Rizaldy Capulong; equities investment division chief Reginald Candelaria; equities product development head Ernesto Francisco, Jr. and chief actuary George Ongkeko, Jr.
He accused the four for “serious dishonesty and grave misconduct” since some of them allegedly used SSS-accredited stock brokers for their own benefit.