Freddie’s embarrassing non-appointmentFREDDIE Aguilar is possibly the greatest singer-songwriter in Tagalog the Filipinos have seen in the past three generations. So we can foresee the new Department of Culture and the Arts being formed and its first-ever chief will be Secretary Freddie Aguilar. After Freddie’s claim caused a controversy, he said, in an Aksyon Tonite (TV5) interview, that he had not asked Duterte for any position in the NCCA. What he did was suggest and implore the President to create a Cabinet department for culture and the arts. Presumably, his friends in the Palace presumed that he wanted to be made secretary of the proposed new Cabinet department.

Source: Manila Times July 18, 2016 14:37 UTC