No reason to torture honest nurses: Recto - Malaya 10.02.2006
SEN. Ralph Recto yesterday said nursing students who took and passed the recent licensure examinations in the Visayas and Mindanao should be exempt from the retake order of Malacañang since the National Bureau of Investigation’s probe established that cheating was confined only to Manila and Baguio City.
"Why punish them when they were far from the scene of the crime so to speak? Proximity, or the lack of it, rules them out as participants in the cheating," said Recto, who is up for reelection next year. He also batted for the exemption of those who took the test in three Luzon cities - Legazpi, Tuguegarao and Lucena.
He said examinees from Visayas, Mindanao, Southern Tagalog, Bicol and Cagayan Valley passed the 500-question test "fair and square." "If there’s robbery in Manila , would you take the fingerprints of people in far away Zamboanga? I don’t think the leaked questions were transmitted through mental telepathy," he said.
The June 11and 12 tests were held in the cities of Cebu, Iloilo and Tacloban in the Visayas; and in Cagayan de Oro, Davao and Zamboanga in Mindanao. With Cebu as the center, which is good for at least two million votes, Visayas and Mindanao could easily give a national candidate some six million to 10 million votes.
President Arroyo last week ordered a retake after months of dilly-dallying on the issue. Last Friday, however, the Palace quickly put the presidential order on hold after being reminded by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) that a petition filed by the UST College of Nursing to stop the oath-taking of those who passed the test was still pending with the Court of Appeals.
The retake is set to be held after the December licensure tests and its cost will be shouldered by the government.
The Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) meanwhile accused President Arroyo of adding political color to the already murky situation by ordering a retake. "GMA’s intervention has confirmed fraud (in the exam) but (it is) very political. It was meant more to please and assure foreign recruiters than justice for examinees," said HEAD public information officer Philip Paraan.
Paraan also said PRC should remain independent and should not have been placed under the Department of Labor.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion, in a separate interview, clarified that DOLE will not control the operations of PRC. "In the (executive order) the instruction there is for DOLE to provide general direction and coordination to PRC, meaning we will only provide guidance and monitor the operations for the Office of the President but not control them," Brion explained. – Dennis Gadil and Gerard Naval
"Why punish them when they were far from the scene of the crime so to speak? Proximity, or the lack of it, rules them out as participants in the cheating," said Recto, who is up for reelection next year. He also batted for the exemption of those who took the test in three Luzon cities - Legazpi, Tuguegarao and Lucena.
He said examinees from Visayas, Mindanao, Southern Tagalog, Bicol and Cagayan Valley passed the 500-question test "fair and square." "If there’s robbery in Manila , would you take the fingerprints of people in far away Zamboanga? I don’t think the leaked questions were transmitted through mental telepathy," he said.
The June 11and 12 tests were held in the cities of Cebu, Iloilo and Tacloban in the Visayas; and in Cagayan de Oro, Davao and Zamboanga in Mindanao. With Cebu as the center, which is good for at least two million votes, Visayas and Mindanao could easily give a national candidate some six million to 10 million votes.
President Arroyo last week ordered a retake after months of dilly-dallying on the issue. Last Friday, however, the Palace quickly put the presidential order on hold after being reminded by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) that a petition filed by the UST College of Nursing to stop the oath-taking of those who passed the test was still pending with the Court of Appeals.
The retake is set to be held after the December licensure tests and its cost will be shouldered by the government.
The Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) meanwhile accused President Arroyo of adding political color to the already murky situation by ordering a retake. "GMA’s intervention has confirmed fraud (in the exam) but (it is) very political. It was meant more to please and assure foreign recruiters than justice for examinees," said HEAD public information officer Philip Paraan.
Paraan also said PRC should remain independent and should not have been placed under the Department of Labor.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion, in a separate interview, clarified that DOLE will not control the operations of PRC. "In the (executive order) the instruction there is for DOLE to provide general direction and coordination to PRC, meaning we will only provide guidance and monitor the operations for the Office of the President but not control them," Brion explained. – Dennis Gadil and Gerard Naval
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