Incoming Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol has asked National Irrigation Florencio Padernal and other high-ranking officials of the Food Security and Agricultural Modernization (OPAFSAM) to resign to give Duterte a free hand in choosing new heads for the agencies.

“That’s what they should do . . . they are co-terminus with the President. That goes for everybody,” Piñol said in a telephone interview with The Manila Times.

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