Former Division of Human Settlements and City Improvement (DHSUD) Sec. Jose “Jerry” Acuzar. —VOLTAIRE F. DOMINGO/ SENATE PRIB
MANILA, Philippines — Three months after he was evicted as housing czar, Jose “Jerry” Acuzar now has a proper workplace and formally regains his secretary rank.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. issued Government Order No. 92 creating the Workplace of the Presidential Adviser on Pasig River Rehabilitation (OPAPRR), and reorganizing the Inter-Company Council for the Pasig River City Improvement (IAC-PRUD).
Below EO 92, the OPAPRR shall oversee and make sure the environment friendly, efficient, and well timed implementation of the rehabilitation and improvement of the Pasig River.
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Acuzar shall advise the President on all issues relating to the formulation and implementation of insurance policies, plans, actions, and applications of the federal government in the direction of the rehabilitation, improvement, and restoration of the banks and tributaries alongside the Pasig River water system and close by water techniques.
He shall additionally coordinate with native authorities models within the implementation of all insurance policies, plans, actions, and applications associated to the Pasig River city improvement.
The OPAPRR shall submit a biannual report back to the President, by way of the Workplace of the Government Secretary, on the standing of the implementation of EO 92.
In Could, the President accepted the courtesy resignation of Acuzar as then secretary of the Division Human Settlements and City Improvement (DHSUD) as a part of his authorities’s “reset” following the outcomes of the Could 12 midterm elections, the place Marcos’ allies gained solely a fewer than anticipated six of the 12 Senate seats.
He was changed by his undersecretary, Jose Ramon Aliling. In flip, Acuzar was then named as presidential adviser for Pasig River improvement, with the rank of secretary — however with out a formal workplace.
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Acuzar is the brother-in-law of former Government Secretary Paquito Ochoa, who was a regulation associate of First Woman Liza Araneta-Marcos.
As DHSUD chief, Acuzar was tasked to steer the multi-agency venture Pasig Bigyan Buhay Muli, a pet venture of the First Woman.
He spearheaded the Pasig River rehabilitation venture for nearly three years, when he was appointed housing czar in July 2022 till his shock reassignment in Could 2025.
In accordance with Government Secretary Lucas Bersamin, Acuzar “underdelivered” — when he “set very excessive requirements for himself when he accepted the job.”
The President additionally reorganized the IAC-PRUD with the chairmanship of the physique returning to Acuzar because the presidential adviser on Pasig River rehabilitation.
Marcos created the IAC-PRUD by way of EO 35 in 2023, with Acuzar as then-DHSUD secretary serving as its chair.
Below EO 92, the DHSUD secretary shall be relegated as one of many members of the IAC-PRUD.
The overall supervisor of the Nationwide Housing Authority and the final supervisor of the Nationwide Improvement Firm are additionally added to the membership of the IAC-PRUD.
The IAC-PRUD shall proceed to carry out its duties and features beneath Part 2 of EO 35.
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