PRESIDENTIAL Communications Operation Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar was named by President Rodrigo Duterte as Cabinet officer, as part of the revival of Regional Development and Security (Cords) for Northern Mindanao.
Andanar was one of the 16 Cabinet secretaries named by Duterte during the Cabinet meeting in May.
"I am very certain that with the activation of the Cabinet Officers for Regional Development and Security all over the country, mas makatabang pa gyud nga mapaabot sa atong presidente ang mga reports sa mga regions," Andanar said during his visit to the regional office of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) on Thursday, June 27.
Cords was created under the administration of former President Fidel V. Ramos.
Andanar said the first joint meeting of the Regional Development Council and the Regional Peace and Order Council will be in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon on Friday, June 28, and it will be presided over by Cords.
They will be discussing the peace agenda of the Duterte administration, he added.
Andanar also lauded the regional directors of Neda and the Department of the Interior and Local Government, as the co-national chairman of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict and Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said that Northern Mindanao is "the most active" and the first to meet after Duterte assigned the Cabinet secretaries as Cords.
Esperon will also be present during the joint meeting Friday, June 28, together with the Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rolando Joselito Bautista, Andanar said. (Jo Ann Sablad)