President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed the cousin of her partner, Honeylet Avanceña, to a new government position months after firing her last year. In an appointment paper dated March 7 and released on Friday, Duterte appointed Melissa Avanceña Aradanas as deputy secretary general of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council. Aradanas was one of the five Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) commissioners who were fired, together with agency chair Terry Ridon, due to excessive foreign trips. Duterte said he had fired all PCUP commissioners because they had not met as a collegial body and that the commissioners were notorious for junkets abroad. READ: Honeylet’s cousin among those sacked by Duterte /muf

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 09, 2018 08:48 UTC