WE count ourselves among those who welcome the fact that the Department of Interior and Local Government will finally have a regular and working department secretary who will sit in the president’s cabinet.

The assumption of the post, however, by former Armed Forces chief Eduardo Año as officer in charge, was a little too perfunctory and routinary for our taste. It did not match the strategic importance of the assignment. From the notes and themes sounded at the turnover ceremony, the occasion fell short of the public’s high expectations of the new DILG chief.

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