{"id":144913,"date":"2018-01-09T03:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=144913"},"modified":"2018-01-09T03:40:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:40:19","slug":"corruption-in-local-govt-dutertes-next-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/09\/corruption-in-local-govt-dutertes-next-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption in local gov&#8217;t Duterte&#8217;s next target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigations hunting corrupt officials are not only directed to the appointees of President Rodrigo Duterte but encompasses all those who are seated in the government, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said that in line with Duterte\u2019s aim to rid the current administration of crooked officials, he is now targeting those in the local government unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president stated that he will continue the process of cleansing the bureaucracy and that he will turn more of his attention to local government units including the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>The president has already kicked out several top officials last year, and just recently, the first for this year was the ousting Maritime Industry Authority Administrator Marcial Amaro III.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 01\/ 09 \/ 18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigations hunting corrupt officials are not only directed to the appointees of President Rodrigo Duterte but encompasses all those who &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42479,15359,42478,42477,2444],"class_list":["post-144913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-corrupt-officials","tag-harry-roque","tag-local-government","tag-maritime-industry-authority-administrator-marcial-amaro-iii","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144913","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=144913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}