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(Eagle News)–The Palace on Thursday, Jan. 10, said the pilot of the chopper carrying Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Diño was to blame for the backlash he has been receiving. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the pilot, in the first place, should have followed proper procedure before landing the helicopter at the PhilSports Complex in Pasig City during a Department of Education event. Netizens accused Diño of abuse of authority after he got off the chopper […]
(Eagle News) — A brother-in-law of Interior Undersecretary Martin Diño has been arrested for a drug-related offense. A radio report said Manuel Bautista was nabbed in a buy-bust operation conducted by the Marikina Police in a house in Barangay Concepcion on Nov. 12. The report, quoting Marikina police chief Senior Supt. Roger Quezada, said arrested with Bautista was one Marife Wisi, the alleged owner of the house. The police said five sachets containing suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride were […]
(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 […]
The Philippine Coast Guard on Monday said it would look into the possible liability of Interior Undersecretary Martin Diño, who was photographed wearing the uniform of the PCG Auxiliary despite him not being a member of such. PCG Spokesperson Capt. Armand Balilo said the Manila Yacht Club Auxiliary where Diño was photographed supposedly taking his oath was not accredited by the PCG in the first place. As such, he said Diño could be violating the law when he […]
(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 The chief executive did this after issuing Executive Order 42 that effectively repealed a […]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) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority administrator Wilma Eisma as its chair. With the appointment, Duterte effectively replaced Martin Diño as SBMA chairman. It was still unclear, however, if Diño would be given another role in the agency. Eisma’s appointment came after President Duterte signed Executive Order No. 42, which effectively repealed EO 340 that specified that powers be split between the SBMA chair and the administrator. With the […]
