{"id":147069,"date":"2018-01-17T20:58:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147069"},"modified":"2018-01-17T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:58:05","slug":"duterte-to-kick-out-deadwood-local-govt-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/17\/duterte-to-kick-out-deadwood-local-govt-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte to kick out &#8216;deadwood&#8217; local gov\u2019t officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDeadwood\u201d officials in the local government whose performances are not conforming to what is expected of them are bound to be ousted by President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m warning the local government officials. I do not want to threaten you but you just do your duty. Also, because, remember, I can always suspend or dismiss you if I want to,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>Though it is not in the president\u2019s power to do this, he said he could make it happen through an administrative complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not the Ombudsman but, administratively, I can hang you so do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte stressed that local government officials who are laxly seated in their positions should just go since they are leaving all the works to him and the authorities.<br \/>\n\u201cThose governors and mayors who are deadwoods or who do nothing and let me, the police and the Armed Forces to take care of everything and you are not doing anything to serve your constituents including dying for your people, get out there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are afraid to die or get sick \u2014you get out. I said: Not during my time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 01\/ 17 \/ 18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDeadwood\u201d officials in the local government whose performances are not conforming to what is expected of them are bound to &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":[2797,13135,43737],"class_list":["post-147069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-ombudsman","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-deadwood-officials","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147069","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=147069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147069\/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=147069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}