President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. mentioned he sees the reappointment of General Andres Centino as Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff because the everlasting answer to the unrest inside the navy attributable to points over rank.
In an interview with reporters in Zurich, Switzerland on Friday, the chief government was requested how he meant to continually cope with discontentment within the navy, as his appointment of Centino and Eduardo Año as the brand new National Security Adviser (NSA) could solely briefly quell the problem.
“I think that’s what exactly what we have done. We have dealt with the problem permanently,” mentioned Marcos.
“In what I refer to as rationalizing the seniority within the officer corps, what we did was the solution to the problem that was the disgruntlement that was going on in the ranks.”
The President added that he consulted the transfer with the AFP.
“This is the way we were told that we could fix it. So that’s what we’ve done,” he mentioned.
On Sunday, Marcos defined he was rationalizing seniority within the navy by appointing Centino who has 4 stars, in substitute of his earlier appointee Lieutenant General Bartolome Bacarro who had three stars.
The appointment of Centino again as AFP chief prompted Defense Department officer-in-charge Jose Faustino Jr. to resign, saying he was not formally knowledgeable in regards to the matter.
Faustino has since been changed by Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr.
Galvez on Tuesday admitted that there have been rumblings inside the navy as a result of “unintended consequences” of Republic Act 11709, which grants a three-year mounted time period for key AFP officers, together with the chief of workers.
With this, the brand new Defense Secretary mentioned they’re planning to resolve the unrest inside the AFP on or earlier than the top of 2023’s first quarter. — DVM, GMA Integrated News
