Palace: Ex-Army general Danilo Lim is new MMDA chairman

Former Scout Ranger commander Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim is the new chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), a Malacañang official said Saturday.

Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea confirmed that Lim has been appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as the new MMDA chief.

Medialdea, meanwhile, said Tim Orbos will remain in the agency as its general manager.

Lim served as the Bureau of Customs deputy commissioner for intelligence during the time of former President Benigno Aquino III, from September 2011 to July 2013.

He ran for senator, but lost in the 2010 national elections under the ticket of the Liberal Party.

Lim was charged with rebellion for the November 2007 standoff at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City when he and several junior officers linked to the July 2003 Oakwood mutiny withdrew their support from Arroyo.

He was also separately charged before another military tribunal for violation of AW67 (mutiny) for the supposed plan to grab power in February 2006.

In May 2010, Lim was given provisional liberty by the military. —reports from Joseph Morong and Trisha Macas/Anna Felicia Bajo/ALG, GMA News