MALACAÑANG HAS ordered the relief of Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) president Elba S. Cruz. A letter dated Dec. 18 by Executive Secretary Salvador C. Medialdea to Ms. Cruz read in part: “Considering that your Term of Office expired on 30 June 2017 and that you have been serving in the DAP Board in a holdover capacity, we now wish to inform you that, upon instructions of the President, your service in such holdover status is hereby discontinued effective immediately.” DAP employees, for their part, in a press statement “thanked President Rodrigo (R.) Duterte for ‘finally terminating’” Ms. Cruz, saying this is the “best Christmas gift” after her “transgressions,” which include her “arbitrary” reorganization of the DAP and “frequent foreign travels.”
