PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has appointed two more Cordillerans to assume government post in new appointment papers released by Malacañang on Friday.
Duterte appointed retired police director Benjamin Magalong of Baguio city as board of director of the Philippine National Oil Company.
Magalong will serve the unexpired term of Bruce Conception until June 30, 2018.
The retired general was a former chief of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and was the regional director of the Police Regional Office Cordillera where he introduced the computerization and crime mapping in the region which was later adopted by the national police.
Magalong also led the police investigation of the botched Mamasapano operation in 2015 in which 44 elite police troopers of the PNP Special Action Force were killed during an operation to capture international terrorists Bin Hir and Basist Usman.
Former San Juan, Abra Mayor Marco Bautista was also appointed as undersecretary of the Department of Tourism.
Bautista was a Congressional candidate in 2016 but lost to Joseph Sto. Nino Bernos. He was also a former general manager of Abra Electric Cooperative.