Duterte partner’s cousin named housing official

Rodrigo Duterte has appointed sacked commissioner of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) Melissa Avanceña Aradanas as deputy secretary general of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council.

Aradanas, a cousin of Duterte’s partner Cielito “Honeylet” Avanceña, were signed on March 7 and released on Friday.

Aradanas, who replaces Patrocinio Jude Esguerra 3rd, was among the five PCUP officials corruption allegations.

Duterte, in a speech delivered he had removed Avanceña’s cousin, amid his resolve to dismiss “whiff of corruption.”

- - missioners -- Aradanas, Joan Lagunda, Manuel Serra Jr. and Noe Indonto -- for failing to meet regularly as a collegial body and for making unnecessary trips abroad.

poor agency. I simply cannot understand why you had to be there at every powwow in the international scene,” Duterte said.

Apart from Aradanas, the President also appointed former envoy to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).

She is the wife of former De lead the Department of Defense under his administration but the latter turned down the offer.

- sary to the Unicef will expire on September 27, 2018.

Also appointed were Bruce Concepcion as special envoy on Dinopol as deputy administrator of the Maritime Industry Author director general of the Bureau of Corrections.