Cimatu goes to ME again

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte announced the reappointment of former military chief Roy Cimatu as the country’s Special Envoy to the Middle East.

“[Cimatu] can be best utilized by the government if there is trouble in the Middle East,” Duterte said in his speech at the 10th Infantry Division Headquarters in Mawab, Compostella Valley. 

Cimatu, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class 1970, was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the 29th AFP Chief of Staff and was instrumental in key government operations in Mindanao and the Middle East.