{"id":226824,"date":"2019-08-14T04:06:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T08:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=226824"},"modified":"2019-08-14T04:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T08:06:03","slug":"former-da-chief-manny-pinol-takes-oath-as-new-minda-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/14\/former-da-chief-manny-pinol-takes-oath-as-new-minda-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DA chief Manny Pi\u00f1ol takes oath as new MinDA chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v4.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=2455560171193104&amp;id=351448724937603\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=2455560171193104&amp;id=351448724937603\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Multi-Tasks!Six-Year Term as MinDAChairman Officially StartsToday, I took my oath to serve as the new Chairman of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MannyPi&#xf1;ol-351448724937603\/\">MannyPi\u00f1ol<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=2455560171193104&amp;id=351448724937603\">Tuesday, August 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Emmanuel\u00a0&#8220;Manny&#8221; Pi\u00f1ol, who was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as the new Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) chairperson earlier this month, took his oath on Wednesday, August 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He was sworn in by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Today, I took my oath to serve as the new Chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), a Cabinet portfolio which carries the rank of Secretary,&#8221; Pi\u00f1ol said in his Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The former Agriculture secretary said in his new post, which he will serve for six years, he would have to &#8220;multi-task&#8221; on agriculture, trade and commerce, international relations, and security concerns. He will also serve as the government&#8217;s representative to the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines East Asia Growth Area Regional Grouping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;My added task is to serve as President Rody Duterte&#8217;s &#8220;Point Person&#8221; to the newly-formed Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;This will also bring me closer to my family and, of course, my farm,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To recall, it was in June when Pi\u00f1ol submitted his courtesy resignation to the President and asked the latter to re-assign him in an agency where he can be \u201ceffective\u201d like in\u00a0MinDA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In his speech in July, Duterte said he needed someone like Pi\u00f1ol who can help speed up the development of Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;There seems to be a lag\u00a0<i>na nakikita ko\u00a0<\/i>(that I see), there\u2019s not much activity in really trying to devolve all \u2014 all powers of the national government relevant to the existence of BARMM,&#8221; the President said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;I am not saying that they are not moving. But they are so slow that I would need a point man there in the likes of Secretary Pi\u00f1ol,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/06\/duterte-confirms-pinol-is-leaving-da\/\">READ: Duterte confirms Pi\u00f1ol is leaving DA<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pi\u00f1ol assured to &#8220;work just as hard&#8221; as when he was the Agriculture chief. He then thanked the stakeholders of the Agriculture department for their supports and asked for their understanding, explaining that his decision to leave his post as their head was in their &#8220;best interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Former Agriculture chief William Dar was chosen to be the acting secretary of the DA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-Tasks!Six-Year Term as MinDAChairman Officially StartsToday, I took my oath to serve as the new Chairman of&#8230; Posted by MannyPi\u00f1ol &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":226825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226824","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=226824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226828,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226824\/revisions\/226828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}