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Duterte: Maybe I'll fire the gov’t corporate counsel


President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday said he might fire head of the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC) and had asked a fraternity brod to resign.

"I just fired the --- maybe I'll fire the corporate [counsel] tomorrow," Duterte said in a speech at the opening of the Oil and Gas Production of the Alegria Oilfield Plyard-3 Well Site in Cebu.

Duterte appointed Rudolf Philip Jurado as government corporate counsel in April last year.

Asked by GMA News Online for clarification on Jurado's possible dismissal, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. replied "no info."

Duterte added that on Friday, he had also asked a law school brod to resign.

"I made a lot of people resign including one of my law school brods yesterday," he said.

Duterte is a member of San Beda College's Lex Talionis fraternity. He had appointed several members of the fraternity in the government.

He had said that he will fire government officials, even those close to him, even over "a whiff or whisper" of corruption.

"When I hired you, you already knew my character. I told you, 'Don't.. Don't be corrupt because corruption is not a vice of mine," Duterte said.

Malacañang announced last week that the President had also ordered the resignation of Assistant Secretary Moslemen Macarambon Sr. of the Department of Justice and Assistant Secretary Tingagun Ampaso Umpa of the Department of Public Works and Highways.

Duterte also said in a separate speech on Saturday during the opening of the Philippine National Games 2018 in Cebu City that he had dismissed two government officials for trying to convince a member of his family to intervene in a project.

"Until now, I keep on dismissing people. I dismissed two officials who said that he has a problem... asked one of the members of my family," he said.

"I told you, I am serious about this. If the request is made by my children, wife, grandchildren, cousins, relatives using my name, don't talk to them. If my relatives ask anything, consider it denied," he added. —ALG, GMA News

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