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Honest soldier dies before being honored for deed
First posted 04:20pm (Mla time) June 14, 2006
By Joel Guinto
INQ7.net
AN HONEST Army major returned 300,000 pesos in excess withdrawals to a Land Bank of the Philippines branch in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, but died before he could be recognized for his good deed.
Maj. Robert Manlapat figured in a motorcycle accident in Kalikid village, Cabanatuan, last Saturday and died a day later at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City, Army spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Bartolome Bacarro said.
Manlapat, together with Technical Sergeant Danilo Morga, went to the Land Bank Cabanatuan branch around noon of March 19 to withdraw three million pesos for the operating expenses of Fort Magsaysay in Laur town, Land Bank Assistant Vice President Merlino Ocampo said in a phone interview.
After they left, they discovered they had withdrawn 300,000 pesos more than intended and decided to return the excess amount to the bank later that day, Ocampo said.
"I wrote the two of them a letter to thank them for returning the money," Ocampo said.
Army chief, Lieutenant General Hermogenes Esperon Jr., will posthumously award a plaque of appreciation to Manlapat on Monday. He will also give a similar plaque to Morga.
"Definitely, he is a loss to the Armed Forces,” Bacarro said of Manlapat. “He is a true soldier, loyal to his job, as manifested by his decision to return the money."




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