Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa on Monday warned that the proposed graduated age of obligatory retirement of navy officers might trigger one other “rumbling” throughout the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The lawmaker raised this in the course of the interval of interpellation on Senate Bill 1849 which seeks to restrict the protection of the three-year mounted time period within the AFP.
Under the proposed measure, the obligatory age of retirement for one-star generals is 57; two-star generals is 58; three-star generals is 59 but when the officer is occupying a tenured key place, the utmost tour of obligation will take priority.
SB 1849 proposed that the tour of obligation might be restricted to 5 tenured key officers:
-AFP chief of employees: most tour of obligation of three years
-Philippine Military Academy superintendent: most tour of obligation of 4 years
-Commanding generals of the Philippine Army and Philippine Air Force, and flag officer of the Philippine Navy: tour of obligation of two years
“May nakikita lang akong kaunting medyo magiging source na naman ng another rumbling, particularly, the provision ‘yung retirement age,” Dela Rosa stated.
Citing his expertise within the Philippine National Police, Dela Rosa stated some navy officers would possibly query why they are going to be pressured to retire on the age of 56 when different star generals are allowed to serve for an extended interval.
“Nakikita ko is magkakaroon ito ng inequality on the tiyansa ng isang official. Baka sabihin ng mga colonel ‘Bakit kaming maga colonel mag-retire at the age of 56?'” Dela Rosa, a former PNP chief, stated.
He then recommended setting a sure retirement age for all AFP officers.
“Why not gawin na lang nating uniform? Ibalik sa dati na 56 lahat kami mag-retire para pantay-pantay kaming lahat [at] para maobserve talaga natin yung equal protection [clause] of law,” he recommended.
Senator Jinggoy Estrada, sponsor of the measure, defined that the availability on the retirement age below SB 1849 was agreed upon throughout a session with a number of junior and senior officers of the AFP.
Should Dela Rosa push to amend the availability, Estrada stated he would wish one other session with the navy officers.
Dela Rosa stated he won’t suggest setting a sure age for the necessary retirement and he simply desires to make it “across the board.”
In response, Estrada stated he’ll settle for Dela Rosa’s amendments ought to the latter suggest it on the correct time.
SB 1849 seeks to amend Republic Act 11709 which grants three-year mounted phrases for key AFP officers, together with the chief of employees.
But RA 11709 had “unintended consequences” which resulted in “rumblings” throughout the navy ranks, in accordance with Defense Secretary Carlito Galvez. Jr.
The measure which seeks to forestall the “revolving door policy” within the AFP was signed by former President Rodrigo Duterte months earlier than he stepped down from workplace.
Last December, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has licensed House Bill 6517, which seeks to amend RA 11709, as pressing.
Marcos stated the invoice will additional improve the insurance policies and initiatives in direction of sustaining a responsive {and professional} AFP personnel.
HB 6517 has already been handed by the House of Representatives on third and closing studying.—LDF, GMA Integrated News
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