Tag: Janet Abuel

Duterte: Abuel to remain OIC of Budget department until the end of my term

(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte will no longer appoint a permanent Budget secretary until the end of his term. According to Duterte, he would let Acting Secretary Janet Abuel lead the department as acting secretary until 2022. She is — spent her lifetime counting the money and dividing it among us. So I am not appointing a new — a regular appointment. Si ma’am will just act as OIC until I — in God’s time matapos […]

Janet Abuel named DBM acting secretary

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Janet Abuel as acting secretary of the Department of Budget and Management. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Abuel’s appointment was announced at the start of the Cabinet meeting on Monday, April 1. Abuel was designated officer in charge of the DBM on March 5 after Benjamin Diokno was named governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. This was following the death of Nestor Espenilla after a battle with tongue […]

JUST IN: Duterte names Budget undersecretary Abuel as DBM officer-in-charge

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has named a Budget undersecretary as officer-in-charge of the Department of Budget and Management. Duterte named Janet Abuel at the helm of the DBM following the appointment of then-Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno as Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor. Diokno replaced Nestor Espenilla, who passed away after fighting tongue cancer, in February. Diokno will serve Espenilla’s remaining term until 2023. Abuel, a bar topnotcher, finished her Masters of Public Administration […]