Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 9) — President Rodrigo Duterte named deputy ombudsmen for the Visayas and Mindanao.
Meanwhile. the Supreme Court confirmed the appointment of Dante Flores Vargas as deputy ombudsman for the Visayas via social media.
Vargas was nominated by the Judicial and Bar Council for the post in December, along with then Elections Commissioner Rowena Guanzon and Beda Angeles Epres who was a director from the Office of the Ombudsman’s General Investigation Bureau.
NEW APPOINTMENTS in the Office of the Ombudsman:
1. Mr. Anderson Ang Lo as Deputy Ombudsman for Mindanao
2. Mr. Dante Flores Vargas as Deputy Ombudsman for Visayas pic.twitter.com/eQ4ecac0i8— Philippine Supreme Court Public Information Office (@SCPh_PIO) March 9, 2022
In a statement Wednesday, acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar said Anderson Ang Lo was appointed to the post in Mindanao. Lo was former undersecretary of the Presidential Management Staff under the Office of the President..
In May 2021, the Judicial and Bar Council submitted Lo’s name, along with two others, as a nominee for the post.
“We wish Deputy Ombudsman Lo success as we assure him of the Executive’s support in the Office of the Ombudsman’s drive towards good governance in the public sector,” Andanar said in the statement.
