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Honor honest workers, lawmaker urges House

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A CONGRESSMAN urged the leadership of the House of Representatives to honor the honesty of two House employees who returned the cash he inadvertently left at his seat in the plenary hall last Tuesday.

Cebu Rep. Jonas Cortes, in a letter to House Secretary General Cesar Pareja, asked the lower chamber to give due recognition to Michael Mark Quimora and Crispin Jasareno, of the Janitorial Services assigned to the plenary hall of Congress, for returning the P19,500 cash he left at the session hall.

Cortes said that honoring Quimora and Jasareno for being “the epitome of integrity and honesty in the service” is “an acknowledgement of the act which is more important than the letter or any award we may decide to give to our honest employees.”

Cortes recalled that last Tuesday, he left the P19,500 cash at his seat in the session hall “not knowing, I left something, I went home and went about with my usual duties.”

He said he was surprised that the following day, Quimora and Jasareno went to his office and returned the money without asking for any reward.

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Cortes said that their act of honesty must be emulated by other people.

“There can be no better way to appreciate someone for their integrity and honesty,” Cortes said in his letter to Pareja dated Sept. 14.

“A simple thank you would not be enough to recognize the honesty shown by our employees here at the House of Representatives,” Cortes added.

Quimora and Jasareno, for their part, said upon seeing the money, they decided to report it to House personnel so that a proper documentation to facilitate the return of the said amount must be done at the soonest possible time.

They said it never crossed their mind to make interest out of the said amount because its wrong. “We don’t get anything that is not ours,” they said in Filipino.

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