{"id":230493,"date":"2019-09-11T03:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=230493"},"modified":"2019-09-11T03:44:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:44:57","slug":"duterte-says-he-will-sack-economic-official-due-to-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/11\/duterte-says-he-will-sack-economic-official-due-to-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte says he will sack economic official due to incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during the oath-taking ceremony of the officers of the League of Vice Governors of the Philippines at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace on September 10, 2019. ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another government official is set to be dismissed from post, not because of corruption allegations but for being incompetent at work, President Rodrigo Duterte revealed on Tuesday, September 10.<\/p>\n

“May isa pa akong tanggalin <\/i>(I will dismiss another one).<\/i> Though she is not corrupt, but she is not in parity with the others sa <\/i>(in terms of) performance,” Duterte said in his speech during the 2019 Outstanding Government Workers Awards rites in Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/p>\n

The President refused to name the official but said that she is handling an economic office.<\/p>\n

In an interview with reporters after the oath-taking of newly-elected officers of the Malaca\u00f1ang Press Corps, Duterte said he found the official’s performance ‘really lacking.’<\/p>\n

“I mean hindi lang siya kasing <\/i>smart ng <\/i>others (She is not smart as others),” he said.<\/p>\n

“But this particular position would need somebody who is — \u2018yung mas… ‘yung mas marunong pa <\/i>(who is more capable),” <\/i>he added.<\/p>\n

Prior to this announcement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the Chief Exectuive fired Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) Executive Director Jose Antonio Goitia.<\/p>\n

Panelo said that Goitia’s dismissal was “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.”<\/p>\n

During his speech, the President did not further elaborate what corrupt activities Goitia was linked in but said that the latter has been “telling people he will be appointed [as] Customs collector, and already was collecting.”<\/p>\n

Goitia, meanwhile, expressed his gratitude to Duterte for entrusting him to serve as the PRRC’s executive director.<\/p>\n

“I will remain fully supportive of the President’s reform and development agenda even as l start to embark on my life’s new journey,” he wrote in his Facebook post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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