IT is encouraging and indisputably right that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is now resolutely moving to remove from his government high officials who have failed to meet the grade for reasons of suspected corruption and abuse of power.

That the firing of officials is taking place after only nine months of Duterte’s accession to the presidency is all to the good. This way. the President and the administration gain the opportunity to make corrections, and learn from the mistakes in appointment and vetting.

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