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Duterte names DILG exec acting agrarian reform chief

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Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/12/01/interior-undersecretary-john-castriciones-2017.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>President Rodrigo Duterte has named Interior Undersecretary John Castriciones as acting Agrarian Reform Secretary. <em>Photo from DILG&#x27;s official Twitter account</em></figcaption></figure></div><p><br/>MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has named Interior Undersecretary for Operations John Castriciones as acting Agrarian Reform Secretary.</p><p>Castriciones will take charge of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) following the rejection of Duterte’s first appointee to the post, activist Rafael Mariano, last September.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/06/17/commission-on-appointments-rejects-mariano-as-agrarian-reform-chief">Commission on Appointments rejects Mariano as Agrarian Reform chief </a></li></ul><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">President Duterte names John Castriciones as acting secretary of the Dept. of Agrarian Reform <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/wGIph6EKH3">pic.twitter.com/wGIph6EKH3</a></p>— Dharel Placido (@dgplacido) <a href="https://twitter.com/dgplacido/status/936571761675481088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Castriciones, who Duterte had appointed to the DILG in September 2016, was one of 3 interior undersecretaries who accused former DILG Secretary Ismael Sueno of various abuses in the department, including alleged ties to gambling syndicates and an anomalous deal to procure fire trucks.</p><p>Duterte <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/03/17/duterte-fires-dilg-chief-over-corruption-allegations">fired </a>Sueno in April over corruption allegations. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/03/17/dilg-chief-fends-off-bribery-corruption-claims">DILG chief fends off bribery, corruption claims </a></li></ul><p>Malacañang has yet to say what will happen to Castriciones’ post at the DILG.</p>

<p>MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has named Interior Undersecretary for Operations John Castriciones as acting Agrarian Reform Secretary.<br /> </p>

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has named Interior Undersecretary for Operations John Castriciones as acting Agrarian Reform Secretary.

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Duterte names DILG exec acting agrarian reform chief

Dharel Placido,

ABS-CBN News

Published December 01, 2017 09:34 PM PHT

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John Rualo Castriciones

DAR

DILG

Department of Agrarian Reform

Department of Interior and Local Government

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