TV5 logo TV5 officially terminated the employment of a program manager who was accused of sexual harassment by a male talent (or casual employee) of the Kapatid network. In a Facebook post of Senator Raffy Tulfo’s service-oriented program on Tuesday, August 22, it announced that TV5 chairman and business magnate Manuel V Pangilinan personally informed him that the respondent, identified as the network’s News and Current Affairs program manager, Cliff Gingco, has been sacked from his post and dismissed from company service after an investigation showed that there’s strong evidence against him. “Personal na nakipag-ugnayan si TV5 Chairman Manuel V.
Pangilinan kay Sen. Idol Raffy Tulfo para ibalita na tapos na ang ginawang imbestigasyon ng network hinggil sa reklamong pangmomolestiya ni Cliff Gingco, program manager ng TV5 News and Public Affairs, sa isang baguhang talent,” read the statement. (TV5 Chairman Manuel V.
Pangilinan personally communicated with Sen. Idol Raffy Tulfo to announce that the investigation done by the network regarding the complaint of molestation by Cliff Gingco, program manager of TV5 News and Public Affairs, on a new talent is over.) “At lumitaw sa imbestigasyon na may matibay na basehan ang reklamo laban kay Gingco, kaya nagdesisyon ang TV5 na tanggalin siya sa trabaho,” it added.
(And it appeared in the investigation that the complaint against Gingco had a strong basis, so TV5 decided to terminate his employment.) The statement also stat.