Morale in the DND and the AFP is high despite the leadership issue now facing the military, a Defense official said. | JEMendozaINQ
“Let me just say that the AFP is a professional organization,” Aguilar told INQUIRER.net in a message on Tuesday when asked about the current morale status of the AFP.as the DND’s officer-in-charge. Presidential peace adviser and former AFP chief Carlito Galvez Jr. was appointed as the new Defense chief.
Faustino’s said he resigned following the reappointment of Gen. Andres Centino as AFP chief of staff, replacing Lt. Gen. Bartolome Bacarro. Centino formally assumed office on Saturday, January 7. During the change-of-command ceremony for Centino, rumors of mass resignations in the DND circulated that stemmed from an unverified memo from the. It placed the entire country under a “full alert status” following the reported mass resignations in the DND. The PNP vowed to launch an investigaion.
DND spokesperson Arsenio Andolong later confirmed that five undersecretaries and four assistant secretaries of the DND had tendered their courtesy resignations after Faustino’s resignation.
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