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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted the resignation of Information and Communications Undersecretary Eliseo Rio. In a statement on Friday, May 22, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque thanked Rio for his ” invaluable services to the nation..” “..We wish him well in all his future endeavors,” Roque said. In February, Rio filed his resignation but he said President Rodrigo Duterte did not accept this. Rio filed his resignation after he was allegedly not informed about how […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte will appoint “in the next few days” an undersecretary who will supervise the citizens’ complaint hotline 8888. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea made the revelation as he announced government plans to create another office that will monitor the public’s complaints, and to incorporate a text messaging system to the current setup in an interview over dzmm radio. “Talagang tututukan na yan because dati, it was under an office of a director..,” Medialdea […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Nov. 27, said he would fire another undersecretary. The President did not identify who this was, only saying that the official who was next on the chopping block was “malikot.” Duterte made the announcement right after announcing he had dismissed Undersecretary Ronald Flores and Assistant Secretary Yeshtern Donn Baccay from the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process during the inauguration of the Bohol-Panglao International […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Nov. 26, said he would fire another undersecretary or corruption. In a speech in Davao, Duterte said he would do this as soon as he gets back in Manila. He did not say whom, however, he was going to dismiss. The President’s pronouncement came after he fired Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council secretary general Falconi Millar. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said a company had lodged an affidavit before […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque Jr., said that President Rodrigo Duterte will fire another undersecretary this week. The announcement was made during a press briefing in Malacañang on Tuesday, April 17. Roque also said that the undersecretary who will be fired is part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to remove corrupt officials. “Mayroon talagang [undersecretary] na scheduled para sibakin,” Roque said. This came after President Rodrigo Duterte in a speech during the mass […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to fire another government official. Duterte made the announcement in a speech in Sofitel on Thursday, April 5. “I’ll be firing about one undersecretary, one after the other. Ubusin ko talaga ‘yan,” he said. The President did not give any reason for the looming dismissal of the official, but in his speech, he railed against corruption and how activities of this nature were still being practised in government. “I […]
(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 on Wednesday revealed he had fired another government official, an undersecretary, only days after he sacked a member of his Cabinet. Duterte made the revelation during a speech at the Grand Harvest Festival of the Seh Leng Agritech Corporation in Talavera, Nueva Ecija. “Sabi ko kanina..tawagan mo..She’s fired. So pangalawa siya,” he said. The first official who was sacked this week was Department of the Interior and Local Government chief […]
