{"id":118421,"date":"2017-09-19T00:47:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T04:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=118421"},"modified":"2017-09-19T00:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T04:47:50","slug":"duterte-on-corruption-slowdown-give-me-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/19\/duterte-on-corruption-slowdown-give-me-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte on corruption slowdown: Give me 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104316\" style=\"width: 843px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104316\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-6.jpg\" alt=\"A US-based Filipino group is fully supporting President Rodrigo R. Duterte\u2019s action declaring martial law in the whole Mindanao region in the wake of the wave of terror perpetrated by Islamist Maute terrorists. (PCOO photo)\" width=\"843\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-6.jpg 843w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-6-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-6-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Rodrigo Roa Duterte vowed a timeframe on ending the country\u2019s corruption on Monday during a convention of public attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Tsaka \u2018yang<\/em> corruption, <em>matatapos talaga \u2018yan <\/em>(And about corruption, it will really end). In the fullness of God\u2019s time, <em>bigyan mo ko ng mga<\/em> (just give me) three years, there will be a slowdown <em>sa<\/em> (in) corruption,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWala talaga akong patawad d\u2019yan (I have no forgiveness on corruption),\u201d he added recalling his firing of former Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Ismael Sueno on April, \u201cIn the Cabinet meeting, <em>nandoon ayan sila<\/em> Aguirre, <em>lahat, sabi ko <\/em>(Aguirre was there when I said): \u2018Get out of this room. You\u2019re fired.\u2019 <em>Sinasabi ko na sa inyo, \u2018wag kayong pumasok sa<\/em> (I am telling you, never engage in) corruption. That will be my injunction to everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duterte went on and revealed that he recently dismissed the Sugar Regulatory Board (SRA) chief. \u201cI will stop graft and corruption and my God, I\u2019m going to do it. <em>Marami na akong tinanggal <\/em>(I already fired a lot). The latest one was Paner of the Sugar Regulatory Board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The President accused Anna Rosario Paner of hiring consultants and paying them excessive fees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Bakit magkuha ka ng <\/em>three [consultants] Sugar Regulatory Board? <em>Tatlo, tapos ang bayad ng tao <\/em>P200 000 a month? <em>G*** ka ba?<\/em> (Why would you hire three consultants for Sugar Regulatory Board, paying P200 000 each? Are you crazy?)\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>He also compared the mentioned amount of P200 000 that is significantly higher than his salary as a president.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte warned appointed officials to \u2018erase the notion of pleasing people close to them\u2019 as they have no political burden since they are \u2018appointed by the appointing authority.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The President then said that he would like to review and limit the hiring of consultants by government agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Roa Duterte vowed a timeframe on ending the country\u2019s corruption on Monday during a convention of public attorneys. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[24228,3673,3810,18165,24227],"class_list":["post-118421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-anna-rosario-paner","tag-corruption","tag-graft","tag-president-rodrigo-roa-duterte","tag-sugar-regulatory-board","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}