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SORSOGON Governor Chiz Escudero exempted harassed coach Aldin Ayo from any violation of government health protocols during the controversial training of the Santo Tomás Tigres Bicol bubble amid the pandemic.
The Varsitarian, UST’s official student publication, posted on social media Wednesday a certification from the provincial government saying it did not find the former Tigers coach responsible for any violation of health guidelines established by the Interagency Task Force. (IATF) for Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Escudero’s office said it cleared Ayo based on the Sorsogon police’s findings on the matter.
Ayo resigned as head coach of the UST Tigers amid controversy over Bicol’s training. Since then, the UAAP Board of Trustees, which is made up of the presidents of the league’s eight member schools, has granted him an indefinite suspension.
Ayo said he is appealing the ban, which he called “inappropriate.”
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“[B]According to the Memorandum of the Sorsogon City Police Station dated September 23, 2020 (Annex A), the Governor’s Office is in line with the findings of said Memorandum considering that there is a clear display of legitimate activities carried out by former UST head coach Aldin V. Ayo; that the actions carried out by former coach Aldin Ayo are in accordance with the health protocol and guidelines according to the existing Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases and that there was no basketball training of the UST sanctioned team conducted in the Mr. Aldin V. Ayo’s domicile or there were prohibited basketball activities carried out by his guests outside his residence within the jurisdiction of the province of Sorsogon, and that Mr. Aldin V. Ayo is not responsible for the violation of any protocol in accordance with EID-IATF guidelines and local executive orders in Sorsogon province, “the report read.
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The PNP memo cited in the report also stated that the UST group provided the police with all necessary documents before heading to Capuy, Sorsogon, stating that they are not persons under monitoring (PUM), they did not have any symptoms of COVID- 19 for 14 days, they were tested seven days before the trip and obtained all necessary travel passes from the Joint Task Force COVID Shield.
A mandatory 14-day home quarantine was also implemented before the team underwent “personal development agricultural training,” which was certified by the captain of the Capuy barangay, the PNP memo added.
It is not clear why the Sorsogon PNP and the provincial government released the memo, although the authorization could help Ayo’s case in an investigation being conducted by a joint panel created by the Inter-Institutional Task Force (IATF) on Management of Emergencies. Infectious diseases.
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The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are also conducting separate investigations six weeks since the issue emerged following the removal of former UST team captain CJ Cansino.
Prospero de Vera, president of CHED, said his own investigation is not yet complete.
“The CHED investigation into possible violations of the CHED warnings is ongoing,” he said.
