(Eagle News) — The Commission on Appointments on Wednesday, Feb. 6, confirmed the appointments of two Cabinet members.
Apart from Eduardo Año, who was confirmed as Interior secretary, and Rolando Bautista who was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, confirmed were Aileen Lizada as commissioner of the Civil Service Commission and 43 military officials, including Marine Col. Ferdinand Marcelino, who faced drug charges in 2016.
In May 2017, the Department of Justice, however, found Marcelino has “sufficiently proven” that he was in the performance of lawful duty when he was found by a joint team of the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in a shabu lab in Manila.
Also cleared was Yan Yi Shou, who Marcelino said was his informant.
Yan, however, was killed in August 2018.
Also confirmed by the CA were five officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs: Ma. Teresita Cruz Daza as ambassador to Chile; Noel Eugene Eusebio Mejico Servigon as ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Jakarta, Indonesia; Ramon Bagatsing Jr. as ambassador to India; Christopher Baltazar Montero as ambassador to Brunei Darussalam; and Noe Albano Wong as ambassador to Korea.
