Wise and necessary appointment

Wise and necessary is the President’s appointment of former senator and former national police chief Panfilo Lacson as “czar” for the rehabilitation of the areas devastated by Typhoon Yolanda.

Some of the President’s critics, including our own Rigoberto Tiglao, have attacked Mr. Aquino for playing politics with the serious work of reconstructing and bringing back to life the towns and villages almost literally razed to the ground by Yolanda’s tsunami-like waves and bullet-train fast winds. They say Mr. Lacson’s usefulness to the President and his ruling-party coalition in the 2016 elections dictated his appointment—despite Mr. Lacson’s alleged lack of qualifications for the position.