Tag: Menardo Guevarra

Guevarra orders justice assistant secretaries and undersecretaries, except career officials, to submit courtesy resignation

Moira Encina Eagle News Service Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has directed all Justice undersecretaries and assistant secretaries, except career officials, to tender their courtesy resignation. In a memorandum dated April 24, Guevarra ordered those concerned to submit their resignation letters to President Rodrigo Duterte through him not later than April 30. Among the assistant secretaries and undersecretaries appointed by then-Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre are Erickson Balmes, Reynante Orceo, Raymund Mecate, Antonio Kho and Deo Marco. […]

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DOJ junks Peter Lim’s appeal to stop reinstatement of drug charges vs him

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has denied Peter Lim’s appeal of a March 19 resolution “vacating” a Department of Justice panel order that directed the dismissal of the criminal charges against him. Guevarra said it was within then-Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre’s powers to issue the resolution that also directs the continuation of a preliminary investigation into the charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act filed against Lim. According […]

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Aguirre says he did not order shredding of documents at DOJ

(Eagle News) — Former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre denied ordering his men to shred documents at the Justice department before leaving office. “If any shredding was done, I know nothing about it,” Aguirre said in a statement. In any case, in the first place, he said the shredding of documents was “regularly done in public and private offices.” “We can even surmise that it was done to get rid of unneeded … documents,” he said. […]

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Duterte to incoming Justice Secretary Guevarra: “Bring back DOJ’s dignified image”

(Eagle News) — “Bring back” the justice department’s “dignified image.” This, according to incoming Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, was the instruction given to him by President Rodrigo Duterte. Guevarra made the revelation in a text message to reporters on Friday. “The President seldom sees me, yet he entrusts such a sensitive position to me. I’m overwhelmed with such confidence,” Guevarra said. According to Guevarra, he would “wind up for a few days” in the Office […]

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Aguirre breaks silence; thanks Duterte, colleagues for helping make a “better” DOJ

(Eagle News) –Vitaliano Aguirre on Friday thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for the “trust and confidence” he said he gave him during his stint as justice secretary in his first-ever statement after his resignation was announced by the chief executive. Aguirre was, however, mum about why he resigned in the first place. Instead, he thanked the  “undersecretaries, assistant secretaries and the other officials of the DOJ and all of the agencies under the DOJ family for welcoming […]

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Poe: Aguirre stepping down shows anyone in Duterte’s official family can be axed, be made to resign

If abuses are committed, they “cannot claim immunity from having to account for them,” Poe says (Eagle News) — Three senators hailed Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre’s resignation, with one saying it only proves no one is safe in President Rodrigo Duterte’s official family. “Pwede kang ma-endo anytime by the President…Whether the exit was graceful or unceremonious, one thing is also certain —  the actions undertaken by the resigned official while in office can be assessed […]

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