THE Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court has convicted a city engineer for three counts of perjury for false misrepresentation in his Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth from 2002 to 2004.
Judge Analie Oga-Brual sentenced Engineer III Rolanda Mamaid to a jail term of three months to one year for each count of perjury.
In its decision, the court asserted the law requires public officials and employees “to accomplish and submit a true, detailed and sworn statement of assets and liabilities.”
Perjury is defined as the willful and corrupt assertion of a falsehood under oath or affirmation administered by authority of law on a material matter.
Prosecutors from the Office of the Ombudsman presented documents and witnesses to strengthen the charges against Mamaid, who “consistently failed to declare his wife’s ownership of a Toyota Revo worth P601,000.”
Mamaid, who is assigned at the City Engineering Office’s Vertical Section, was in a meeting when The Standard tried to reach him for comment.