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Duterte Appoints Thinking Pinoy As New Executive Secretary

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A3352B1E-4930-4054-92F9-74F6815E409AMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – ‘Tis the season for firing and hiring at Malacañang Palace.

After firing staff of the Presidential Commission on Urban Poor (PCUP), President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed R.J. Nieto, a.k.a. Thinking Pinoy (TP) as his new Executive Secretary.  The President appears to be more all ears (see photo) to TP than to paid officials and staff at the palace.

For starters, T.P. just wrote and submitted a memo to the President  updating him on the hot-button issue of Dengvaxia, the Dengue vaccine manufactured and distributed by the French Senofi Pharmaceuticals.

Dengvaxia was administered to more than 800,000 school kids under the free Dengue vaccination program launched by the PNoy administration.

Senofi has acknowledged that the vaccine could cause severe Dengue among those innoculated but have not had a previous episode of the disease.

It wasn’t clear whether Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea will remain in his post or will be given another appointment.

The Adobo Chronicles tried to reach Medialdea for comment but we could not locate him in Baguio City where he was reportedly scouting for a newer and bigger summer residence for the Office of the Executive Secretary.

We’ll now see you more often in Baguio, TP! At the new summer residence…

Government, Health & Medicine, Politics

NoyNoy Aquino Returning To The Senate!

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7AB60298-C93F-447D-957F-B106A9ACF18AMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – And you thought you were done with NoyNoy Aquino when he stepped down as President in 2016. Think again.

Reliable sources have informed The Adobo Chronicles that the ex-President is indeed returning to the Senate.

But not as a Senator.  Rather, as a witness in the ongoing Senate investigation on the Dengue vaccine mess.

Many will recall that it was during PNoy’s administration that the controversial (and now potentially unsafe) vaccine Dengvaxia was approved under the government’s Dengue immunization program without the appropriate recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO)

Aquino reportedly wants to tell the truth at the Senate investigation.

But can he handle the truth?

Government, Politics

Duterte Abolishes PCUP, Creates PCUP-2

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F334044F-1AB0-4403-B0D6-A9460842D880.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – President Rodrigo Duterte announced today that he was abolishing the Presidential Commision on Urban Poor (PCUP), a taxpayer-funded agency created in 1986 by then President Corazon Aquino.  Duterte cited corruption for his decision.

In place of the PCUP, Duterte created a new commission, the PCUP-2: Presidential Commission on (the closure) of the University of the Philippines.

”It is my intention to abolish government agencies and institutions that are either corrupt or are a waste of taxpayer money,” Duterte said. “U.P. is one of those institutions milking the Filipino people for funding,” he added.

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque told The Adobo Chronicles that Duterte’s decision to create the new commission was based on recent developments where U.P students wasted taxpayer money by walking out of their classes to protest against the Duterte administration.

Roque was specifically referring to U.P. Diliman’s annual Oblation Run  — a naked protest by students.   “While I enjoy seeing all the naked men, I think that their protest against Duterte is out of place,” Roque said.