{"id":242062,"date":"2020-01-13T22:09:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=242062"},"modified":"2020-01-14T01:13:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T06:13:32","slug":"guerrero-stays-in-his-post-prrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/13\/guerrero-stays-in-his-post-prrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerrero stays in his post: PRRD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reports indicated that Guerrero would supposedly be replaced by Davao-based businessman William D.J. Lima, who was earlier appointed as special envoy to China. (File Photo:<\/a> Bureau of Customs PH\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night said he was \u201csatisfied\u201d with the performance of Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo \u201cJagger\u201d Guerrero amid reports that he was going to be replaced.<\/p>\n

In a media interview in Taguig City after an engagement with members of the Philippine Marine Corps, Duterte denied reports that there was a new Customs Chief set to replace Guerrero.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m satisfied with General Guerrero and he stays there,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

He admitted that there were still some complaints against the Bureau of Customs (BOC), but was determined to discuss them with the former chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still some complaints, so I\u2019ll talk to him (Guerrero).\u00a0Lalo na \u2018yung mga tao na sinabi ko na paalisin na niya<\/em>\u00a0(Especially the people who I asked him to fire). Some of them are lingering there,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

He did not identify the personnel of what he previously described as a \u201ccorruption-ridden agency\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo\u00a0sabihin ko kay<\/em>\u00a0Jagger,\u00a0alisin mo na \u2018yan kasi \u2018yan \u2018yung mga tao na<\/em>\u00a0who have been there for 25 years, 20 years,\u00a0puro corruption ang ginawa<\/em>\u00a0(So I\u2019ll tell Jagger, remove them there because they\u2019re the people who have been there for 25 years and did nothing but corruption),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Reports indicated that Guerrero would supposedly be replaced by Davao-based businessman William D.J. Lima, who was earlier appointed as special envoy to China.<\/p>\n

However, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said that there was \u201cno specific instruction yet\u201d about Lima\u2019s supposed appointment.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Duterte warned that he would replace all Customs employees with military personnel after billions worth of shabu slipped past the agency.<\/p>\n

The President said \u201canarchy\u201d prevails in the BOC as he defended his decision to designate uniformed personnel in his Cabinet anew.<\/p>\n

His decision to deploy military personnel at the BOC is to \u201ckeep peace”, Duterte said.<\/p>\n

The following year, the President met with 52 BOC personnel facing corruption allegations in Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/p>\n

Duterte ordered the \u201cfreezing\u201d of BOC officials and employees which meant that they would be placed on \u201cfloating\u201d status pending administrative and criminal charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night said he was \u201csatisfied\u201d with the performance of Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo \u201cJagger\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":242063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242062","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=242062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242064,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242062\/revisions\/242064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}