FAKE NEWS ALERT : DA6-RED Recoter denies issuing June 23 Memo

KALIBO, Aklan- No less than Department of Agriculture Regional Executive Director Remelyn Recoter denied she had issued a department memorandum order dated June 23, 2022.

The said memorandum was supposedly a reminder of an executive order implementing a temporary total ban on the entry and exit of all live domestic birds, and their products including poultry meat, day old chicks, eggs, semen and manure from all regions in the Philippines.

The supposed duration of the memorandum will be from June 23 to July 6 this year.

“Please be informed that the Office of the Regional Executive Director of the Department of Agriculture in Western Visayas HAS NOT ISSUED AND CIRCULATED any Memorandum dated June 23, 2022, with SUBJECT: Information Dissemination of all provinces and city in the Philippines on Executive Order No. 22-09 series of 2022,” Recoter who hails from Banga, Aklan said.

Recoter said someone has misrepresented her office, and that they are investigating the incident for usurpation of authority. It was not clear whether the original office memorandum exists.

“I also deny that the signature indicated in the said memorandum was mine. Even the letterhead and grammar are not the same,” she added.