‘No Cabinet reshuffle’

talagang hindi ito pwedeng birubiro lang ( that is indeed not a joke),” he said.

- his campaign promise to rid the government of corruption.

Duterte’s allies – former Interior secretary Ismael Sueno, former National Irrigation Administration chief Peter Laviña, former Information and Communications Technology secretary Rodolfo Salalima – were among those removed - tions were hurled against them.

In December 2017, the President dismissed Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor chair Terry Ridon and four other commissioners over alleged junkets abroad.

Also last month, he told Development Academy of the Philippines president Elba Cruz to vacate her post after she was accused of traveling abroad every month.

On Thursday, the Palace announced that the President had (Marina) Administrator Marcial Quirico Amaro 3rd for frequent travels abroad (see story on A2).

Andanar stressed that the President does not condone corrupt practices and would not hesitate to fire anyone involved in irregularities.

“That was [one of] the promise[s] of the President during the cam really shows that we really have a President who is very…committed to all of his promises during the 2016 campaign,” he said.

DILG caretaker

Duterte on Friday named former Armed Forces chief Eduardo Año - ment of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).

Based on the appointment papers released to media on Friday, Año replaced Catalino Cuy, the former Davao City police chief, who was named chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) to replace retired general Dionisio Santiago. Cuy took over the post from Sueno.

Año was appointed to his post less than three months after the Palace announced his appointment as DILG undersecretary last October 27, 2017 or less than a day after Año retired from military service.

The President said in early 2017 he wanted Año to head the DILG as soon as the ban under the DILG Act of 1990, which prohibits the Chief Executive from appointing year period, expires.

Año was the administrator of martial law in Mindanao, which the President declared on May 23 to suppress the alleged rebellion by the terrorist Maute group and its sympathizers bidding to establish an Islamic caliphate.

Intel chief

Prior to being the Armed Forces chief, Año served as commander of the 10th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army and chief of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) from 2012 to 2014.

It was during his tenure as ISAFP chief when Communist Party of the Philippines- New People’s Army leaders Benito and wife Wilma Tiamzon were arrested in Cebu.

Former DILG head Cuy, meanwhile, will take over the reins of the DDB from Santiago who - ments that the 10,000-bed capacity drug rehabilitation center in Nueva Ecija was a mistake because small- scale rehabilitation centers at the barangay (village) level, where family support would be available for the drug

Prior to being named to the DDB, Cuy served as the OIC of the DILG as well as DILG Undersecretary for Peace and Order.