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(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Thursday, Jan. 17, welcomed the Alliance of Concerned Teachers’ filing of a petition seeking to put a stop to the Philippine National Police’s information gathering on its members. In a statement, Año, however, also stood by the police’s intelligence gathering, describing it as routine work. He noted Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison himself admitted ACT was one of the group’s fronts. “The PNP will […]
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Wednesday, Jan. 16, directed the Philippine National Police to intensify its measures in order to protect candidates running in the 2019 elections. “The PNP should take offensive and preventive measures. We should be several steps ahead of those who resort to violence to win an election,” Año said. According to Año, in particular, the PNP should intensify “police interventions, operations, and police visibility.” He said the police should coordinate with […]
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Thursday, Nov. 29, hailed the conviction of three policemen by a Caloocan court for the murder of Kian delos Santos, saying it shows, among others, that “justice is blind.” It “does not distinguish whether one is in a position of authority or not,” Año said, following the Caloocan Regional Trial Court Branch 125’s decision to sentence P03 Arnel Oares and P01 Jeremias Pereda and Jerwin Cruz to reclusion perpetua […]
(Eagle News) — Retired General Eduardo Año on Monday, November 5 took his oath as the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) before President Rodrigo Duterte, after serving for 10 months as its officer-in-charge of the department. According to Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo, President Duterte administered the oath taking of Año during a ceremony at the Malago Clubhouse in Malacañang. Año, a former department undersecretary, was appointed by the President […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government will probe ten municipal mayors for possible negligence after they were alleged to be missing in action even as Typhoon “Ompong” battered their areas of jurisdiction over the weekend. Jonathan Malaya, DILG spokesperson, did not name the mayors but said they were from the Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley. “Ompong” made landfall in northern Luzon. “We are now doing a review of their performance […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Thursday, July 5, denied there was a “pattern” in the recent killings of two mayors. In a statement, DILG officer in charge Eduardo Año noted that “each case has its own facts.” He was referring to the killings of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili on Monday, July 2, and General Tinio, Nueva Ecija Mayor Ferdinand Bote. Halili was shot as he was presiding over the […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Thursday, May 3, filed a second batch of cases against barangay officials who allegedly failed to set up a Barangay Anti-Drug-Abuse Council as required by the law. Charged with misconduct of office and dereliction of duty before the Office of the Ombudsman were Talabaan chairperson Luna Gracio; Mariposa chairperson Charles Guya; Lanang chairperson Caesar Castillo; Gumahang chairperson Rodolfo Tolero; Bagauma chairperson Emerson Fajel; Bulalacao chairperson Lourdes Arguilles; San Isidro chairperson […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Monday, April 30, formally filed charges against barangay officials who allegedly failed to set up the Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Council in their areas of jurisdiction, as required by the law. Interior Undersecretary Martin Diño and Assistant Secretary Ricojudge Janver Echiverri filed the administrative complaints before the Ombudsman against the chairs of Barangays 471, 477, 482, 659-A, and 690 in Manila. The filing came on […]
(Eagle News) — Martin Diño is now undersecretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government. President Rodrigo Duterte himself made the appointment, months after he was asked to give up his post as chair of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority chair “in the name of public interest.” The President then appointed lawyer Wilma Eisma, then the SBMA administrator, in Diño’s place. The chief executive did this after issuing Executive Order 42 that effectively repealed a […]
(Eagle News) — The officer in charge of the Department of the Interior and Local Government officially turned over the reins of the agency to its new head in ceremonies held on Tuesday. Former Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Eduardo Año took the helm of the DILG from Catalino Cuy, who was officer in charge for almost a year. Cuy will now head the Dangerous Drugs Board. The turnover ceremonies came four days after President […]
(Eagle News) — A day after his official retirement as Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff, Lt. General Eduardo Año was appointed Department of the Interior and Local Government undersecretary. President Rodrigo Duterte himself made the appointment in an Oct. 26 memorandum sent to the DILG. Earlier, Duterte said Año, who retired after reaching the mandatory age of retirement for military officers, could serve as special assistant to the president or DILG undersecretary, whichever was […]
(Eagle News) — “I could never be misinformed.” This was the response of President Rodrigo Duterte to dismissed Interior Secretary Mike Sueno’s statement the chief executive had been fed wrong information that led to his dismissal on Monday. “I could never be misinformed. Kaabugado ko misinformed ako,” he told reporters in an ambush interview in Camp General Artemio Ricarte in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, which he visited on Thursday. “When I make a move, when I […]
