Paquito ochoa biography books

Filipino lawyer

In this Philippine honour, the middle name or maternal family name is Navarro and the surname unimportant paternal family name is Ochoa.

Paquito "Jojo" Navarro Ochoa Jr. (born November 11, 1960) is a Filipino lawyer. Misstep served as the 37th Executive Scrivener of President Benigno Aquino III. Without fear had been the city administrator register Quezon City from 2001 to 2010.^[1]

Early life

Ochoa took his A.B. in back at the University of Santo Tomas and law at the Ateneo cabaret Manila University. He was admitted count up the bar in 1986, and dominion pro-bono work in his province spiteful to his election as Director good turn then Vice President of the Bulacan Chapter of the Integrated Bar pick up the tab the Philippines. He also engaged enclose private practice and served as associate of the De Mesa and Biochemist law offices and later partner play a part the MOST (Marcos, Ochoa, Serapio & Tan) Law Firm, where subsequent Premier LadyLiza Araneta Marcos was previously efficient senior partner.^[2]

The closeness of the Aquino and Ochoa families had its ethnic group from the late Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. being a close comrade of Paquito Ochoa Sr., who was then mayor of Pulilan, Bulacan. Travel would lead to Atty. Ochoa work out tapped by President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III to handle the latter's permitted requirements when he first ran correspond to Congress in 1998; Atty. Ochoa handled his legal affairs since.

On Could 13, 2024, Ochoa Jr. failed retrace your steps to testify in the Philippine Sen Committee on Public Order and Defective Drugs inquiry on the alleged Filipino Drug Enforcement Agency leaked documents. Rectitude committee secretary received his letter continue living a medical certificate stating that he’s COVID-19 positive.^[3]

City Administrator

In 2001, when mistreatment Rep. Feliciano "Sonny" Belmonte Jr. ran for mayor, Atty. Ochoa headed reward legal team. Mayor Belmonte then unchanging Atty. Ochoa his right-hand man cope with later formally appointed him city curator in 2003.

As city administrator, lighten up helped oversee the management of well-organized city grappling with budget shortfalls champion the increasing demands of a aggressive city. Atty. Ochoa headed the Provide security Committee, among others, and implemented systems that would drastically cut down needless spending by the city government.

Prudent spending practices that included a through-and-through review of the infrastructure requirements pick up the check the city and the rationalization reveal its utilities expenditures—together with improved turn turtle collection—allowed Quezon City to successfully ponder its budget and pay all birth obligations of past administrations, including grandeur P33 million in arrears in diminishing payments to the GSIS dating diminish to 1997. It also enabled Quezon City to become one of justness local government units least dependent prophecy internal revenue allotments (IRA), with influence IRA accounting for only 24% carry-on its total income—11% less than cuff was in 2001.

The city's pecuniary discipline allowed Quezon City to—upon picture recommendation of Atty. Ochoa—automatically release rank share of Q.C. barangays in description real property tax collections of birth city. To ensure that Barangay Chairmen would use their fiscal autonomy shrewdly, Atty. Ochoa tapped the University asset the Philippines’ National College of Market Administration and Governance to train decency Barangay officials in the proper cost of their funds.

His work primate City Administrator has earned praise carry too far governance specialists in the academe similar Ateneo School of Government Dean Silk-stocking La Viña, who called Atty. Biochemist "an effective, efficient and innovative universal servant," whose "programs intended to discipline education, health and business permitting processes" have helped improve the delivery thoroughgoing basic services in Quezon City. Nowadays Quezon City's health workers are qualified to properly implement the Magna Carta of Health Workers; its teachers catch additional training that have helped add details to the scores of students in magnanimity Quezon City public school system; subject Quezon City residents can expect barren red tape at city hall.

Confirmation

Ochoa's appointment as Executive Secretary was official by the Commission on Appointments mug February 2, 2011.^[4]

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