Esperon: No official word yet on my term extension

By Ronron
January 25, 2008

Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. said Friday he has yet to receive an official word from Malacañang on the extension of his term.

In a radio interview early yesterday morning, Esperon admitted though that somehow, he could feel that his term extension is already being considered.

“There is nothing official yet on that even if I could feel slightly that my term extension is already being considered. But there is nothing official yet given to me on the extension of my term,” he told DWIZ in radio interview while speaking in Filipino.

Esperon said he does not know also if President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will announce his term extension when she returns from her official trip abroad.

Nonetheless, Esperon said he will be ready to accept it, citing his willingness to continue taking the challenge in addressing the different threats to national security.

“I’ll be very honored to serve for a couple of time, especially that we really need to pursue the momentum of the Armed Forces against the New People’s Army and the Abu Sayyaf,” he said.

It was during Esperon’s term that Arroyo tasked the AFP and the Philippine National Police to jointly crush the insurgency movement by 2010 and defeat all other security threat groups when she ends her term./DMS