{"id":230375,"date":"2019-09-10T21:54:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=230375"},"modified":"2019-09-10T21:54:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:54:57","slug":"duterte-fires-pasig-river-rehab-commission-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/10\/duterte-fires-pasig-river-rehab-commission-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte fires Pasig River Rehab Commission exec"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during his visit to Camp General Vicente Lukban in Catbalogan City, Samar on June 19, 2019. ALFRED FRIAS\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— President Rodrigo Duterte has fired Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) Executive Director Jose Antonio Goitia over alleged corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cItong<\/em>\u00a0PRRC (This PRRC official), I just dismissed him,\u201d Duterte said in his speech during the 2019 Outstanding Government Workers Award ceremony at Malaca\u00f1an Palace on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Before his speech, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo also announced Goitia\u2019s termination in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Palace announces the termination of the appointment of Mr. Jose Antonio E. Goitia as the Executive Director of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe termination is made pursuant to the President’s continuing mandate to eradicate graft and corruption, and to ensure that public officials and employees conduct themselves in a manner worthy of public trust,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Panelo advised Goitia to turn over all official documents, papers, and properties in his possession to the Office of the Deputy Executive Director for Finance and Administrative Services of the Commission.<\/p>\n

He stressed that the sacking of Goitia and other Cabinet and government officials shows that there are no sacred cows in the Duterte administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that this shall serve as another example that this administration does not — and will never — tolerate corrupt practices in the bureaucracy and in public service,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 28, Duterte signed Executive Order 90 transferring the chairmanship of the PRRC to the Department of Natural Resources (DENR).<\/p>\n

The EO emphasized that \u201cthere is a need for close coordination and oversight of all ongoing efforts of the national government relative to the cleanup and rehabilitation of major waterways in Metro Manila.”<\/p>\n

The newly-organized commission will be chaired by the DENR Secretary or his duly authorized representative and co-chaired by the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chair.<\/p>\n

The members of the commission include the secretaries of the Departments of Public Works and Highways, Budget and Management, Tourism, Transportation, Finance, Trade and Industry, National Defense, Interior and Local Government, Human Settlements and Urban Development, and the Office of the Executive Secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— President Rodrigo Duterte has fired Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) Executive Director Jose Antonio Goitia over alleged corruption. \u201cItong\u00a0PRRC …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":219639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230375","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=230375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230377,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230375\/revisions\/230377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}