Saturday, August 30, 2008 Arroyo appoints another defeated admin bet
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo named defeated Pasay City mayoralty candidate Consuelo Dy as deputy director of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC).
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced late Thursday the appointments of Dy, along with former Court of Appeals (CA) justice Nicolas Lapeña Jr. as acting chairman of the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC), and lawyer Villamor Ventura Plan as acting executive director of the Department of Finance’s One-Stop-Shop Interagency Tax Credit and Duty Drawback Center.
Plan, a managing partner in the Sorplan Shopper Plaza and legal officer of the Department of Health (DOH)-Center for Health Development for Cagayan Valley, is a member of the board of directors of the Government Service Insurance System Mutual Fund Inc. and chairman of the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council bids and awards committee.
Lapeña, who assumed his post last Tuesday, began his career at the Central Bank of the Philippines in 1954. He started teaching law at the Philippine Judicial Academy, UP, San Sebastian College, Ateneo de Manila University, and University of Manila 15 years later.
He also taught law at the New Era University (NEU), where he became president from 1978 to 1983. He also served president of the Eagle Broadcasting Corporation (1973 to 1978) and concurrent chairman of the Philippine Postal Savings Bank (2002 to present).
Dy, a member of the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi), was a two-term congresswoman of Pasay, a post she held from 2001 to 2007.
She ran in 2007 for the mayoralty post of Pasay but lost to Wenceslao Trinidad. Her appointment came months after the one-year ban on the appointment of defeated candidates that ran in the last elections ended.
Aside from Dy, Arroyo is also considering the appointment of former Surigao del Sur congressman Prospero Pichay to the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) board chairmanship.
Pichay, also a KampiI member, is the owner of the printing press Carlo
Commercial Publishing and Carlo Publishing that produces the tabloid Remate. He is also a part owner of the AM radio station, DZME.
As this developed, Arroyo swore into office last Friday morning defeated San Fernando (Pampanga) mayoralty bet Reynaldo Aquino as president and chief executive officer of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) and defeated Manila vice mayoralty bet Grepor Belgica as commissioner of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission.
The President also administered the oath to Commissioner Ma. Victoria Cardona of the Commission on Human Rights, Commissioner William Merdano of the Commission on Higher Education, and president and chief executive officer Bengno Ricafort of the Clark Development Corporation. (JMR/Sunnex)
