{"id":184328,"date":"2018-10-05T07:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T11:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184328"},"modified":"2018-10-05T07:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T11:15:01","slug":"retiring-army-chief-next-dswd-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/05\/retiring-army-chief-next-dswd-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring army chief is next DSWD Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184332\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-Manilajf8547_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184332\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-Manilajf8547_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-Manilajf8547_21.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-Manilajf8547_21-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bautista will retire on Oct. 15 when he turns 56 years old. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=30722509\">File Photo By Ramon FVelasquez\/Wikimedia <\/a>commons<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=30722509\">, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Thursday night named retiring Army chief, Lt. Gen. Roland Bautista, as the next Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Na<\/em>-announce<em>\u00a0ko naman<\/em>\u00a0(I have announced), the next DSWD Secretary was just about a few days &#8212;Rolly Bautista,\u201d Duterte said in a speech before members of the Philippine Military Academy Alumni Association (PMAAAI).<\/p>\n<p>In a command conference last month, Duterte bared that he wanted Bautista to replace resigned National Food Authority (NFA) administrator Jason Aquino.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea told reporters that Bautista did not decline the NFA post but was offered a new post as DSWD chief.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte has yet to announce someone to replace Aquino, who resigned amid issues hounding the country\u2019s rice supply.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista will retire on Oct. 15 when he turns 56 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being army chief, Bautista was also Presidential Security Group (PSG) commander.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Duterte bared that he prefers military men in his Cabinet since they get the job done immediately.<\/p>\n<p>DSWD Acting Secretary Virginia Orogo currently heads the agency.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Thursday night named retiring Army chief, Lt. Gen. Roland Bautista, as the next Secretary &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":184332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184328","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}