By PIA Pagadian
Malacañang - President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo this morning inducted into office Acting Press Secretary Crispulo Icban Jr.
Icban took over the position left vacant by the death of Press Secretary Cerge Remonde.
The induction, held at the Ceremonial Hall of Malacanang, was witnessed by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, Icban’s wife, Zenaida, his children and grandchildren, close friends and officials of the Office of the Press Secretary. Manila Bulletin chairman Don Emilio Yap was also present.
The President thanked Icban for accepting the post. The new secretary, for his part, asked the President how she manages such a taxing schedule as hers.
“I told her that I truly admired her stamina and hard work and joked that septuagenarians like Secretary Ermita and myself could not keep pace with her,” Icban said later in an interview.
Icban officially assumed office today. He attended a private lunch in his office, followed by a tour of each of the offices under OPS in the
Seated behind the Press secretary’s desk, Icban told the editors that he will take his cue from them because “you know better than I do what our work is all about around here.
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