(Eagle News)– Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Tuesday (September 13) admitted and recognized the agency’s recent blunders, and assured not to let the errors happen again.
“We have had lapses in our operations and these lapses happened during one of our overzealous staff at the Presidential News Desk announced the seating arrangement at the ASEAN which we were not suposed to announce,” Andanar said during the House budget hearing for PCOO’s P1.255 billion proposed budget for 2017.
“These mistakes will never happen again,” he added.
The communications office drew flak after releasing reports of President Rodrigo Duterte would sit in between United States Barack Obama and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon during the ASEAN gala dinner.
At the event, Duterte ended up sitting besides Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Recently, a commemorative graphic for the 99th birth anniversary of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos posted by Official Gazette–also under PCOO– was hit by netizens due to “historical revisionism”.
The post was revised three times, and gave way to a Facebook parody account named “Superficial Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines” and trending hashtag #SuperficialGazette on Twitter.
