An employee of the Cebu City Hall assigned at the Market Operation Division of Carbon Freedom Park Market was arrested through an entrapment operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation for alleged extortion. | Photo courtesy of NBI-7
Rama said that whether the market aide was a regular, casual, or job order employee, she will be terminated from her job because she was caught in the act of doing a crime. Kara Marie Bargamento, 29, an Administrative Aide III, in charge of the Market Operation Division of the Freedom Park was entrapped by the NBI on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, after allegedly demanding P100,000 from some vendors affected in the modernization of the market.
Mayor Rama said this is exactly why he wanted to evaluate all employees of the city government even before Mayor Edgardo Labella died when he assumed the full powers of an acting mayor.