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After DILG head, 3 more face the ax

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MALACAÑANG on Wednesday named a senior Interior department official as its new officer-in-charge and vowed to sack three more officials before the end of the week.

Catalino Cuy, Undersecretary for Peace and Order replaces Ismael Sueno, who was fired over corruption allegations on Monday. 

Cuy served as police chief of Davao City when President Rodrigo Duterte was the city’s mayor before he was appointed to the Interior department, which has jurisdiction over the police and local government units. 

“Cuy will hold the position to ensure the continuous and effective delivery of services of the department until the President appoints a new secretary,” Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said. 

Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella

Cuy welcomed his appointment. “It is an honor for me to have received this opportunity to lead the Department of the Interior and Local Government as its officer-in-charge,” Cuy said. 

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President Duterte earlier dismissed  a woman undersecretary over the issue of rice importations. 

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said Duterte indeed sacked Maia Chiara Halmen Reina A. Valdez, an undersecretary of the Office of the Cabinet Secretary. 

“She had a conflict with NFA Administrator Jason Aquino,” Piñol said in a text message.

Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III on Wednesday took the cudgels for former Interior Secretary Ismael Sueno who was sacked over an alleged anomalous firetrucks deal.

He described Sueno, a former governor of South Cotabato,  as a “a good, low-key and religious” person. 

He said  the public should not be quick to judge him as corrupt. With Macon Ramos-Araneta

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