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Friday, October 22, 2004
26 government officials sworn in
PRESIDENT Arroyo swore in Thursday 26 government officials, including three presidential assistants and five police generals.
Among those who took their oaths were presidential assistants Manuel Domingo (Office of the President); Narciso Santiago Jr. (revenue enhancement); and Ferdinand Mahusay (Zamboanga peninsula); Customs Commissioner George Jereos; Customs Deputy Commissioner Roberto Geotina; National Food Authority administrator Gregorio Tan Jr.; and Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr.;
Senior deputy executive secretaries Waldo Flores and Joaquin Lagonera; deputy executive secretaries Jose Tale, Manuel Gaite (legal affairs), Susana Vargas (finance and administration), and Richard Ferrer (general administration); and Undersecretary Gamaliel Cordoba (Office of the President);
Roger Arienda, deputy secretary general of the ad hoc council on values formation; Raymundo Roquero, executive director of the Political Coalition Affairs; Myrna Yao, chairperson of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women; Margarita Cojuangco, president of the Philippine Public Safety College;
Associate Justice Erlinda Uy, Court of Tax Appeals; Teodorico Haresco Jr., director of the Philippine National Oil Company; and Ricardo Ochia, technical assistant of the Mindanao Economic Development Council.
Arroyo also swore in PNP Chief Edgardo Aglipay; Deputy Director General Ricardo de Leon, head of the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime; Director Oscar Calderon, PNP comptroller; Director Arturo Lomibao, PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief; and Director Vidal Querol, head of the Police Regional Office Command in the Zamboanga Peninsula (Region 9).
De Leon, Calderon, Lomibao, and Querol have just been promoted to the next higher rank.
Santiago, husband of Sen. Miriam Santiago, was Interior undersecretary during the Estrada administration while Arienda, a Martial Law detainee and a defeated senatorial candidate in 1992, is an evangelist and radio commentator.
Roquero is a former newsman and mayor of a town in Aklan. Cojuangco was Tarlac governor and a presidential assistant during the first Arroyo administration. (JMR)
(October 22, 2004 issue)
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