Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon raised fears that assigning Cabinet secretaries to Metro Manila cities and several other provinces to support their pandemic response could lead to the overstepping of authority. | CMRamosINQ
Drilon noted that the term “big brother” was coined by author George Orwell in his 1949 fiction novel titled “1984,” which refers to the supreme authority in a totalitarian society.
The senator, a former justice secretary, said that administrative law defines “supervision” as overseeing or the power or authority of an officer to see to it that subordinate officers perform their duties. Drilon further explained that in accordance with previous Supreme Court rulings, Cabinet secretaries, as agents of the President, do not have the same control of LGUs “as that exercised by them over bureaus and offices” within their jurisdiction under the Revised Administrative Code.
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