Sal Panelo - a man who calmly said that 32 journalists and 27 others were not murdered by the Ampatuan gangsters in a massacre he says never took place.

Sal Panelo - a man who absent-mindedly posted pictures of Duterte having dinner with Gloria Arroyo a few days before the election - minus the neck brace that she sports in public - on his Twitter feed.

Sal Panel - a man who claims the Marcoses are saints and never stole anything.

But his is not the only questionable appointment that Duterte has announced. Cronyism and nepotism will continue to continue to underpin Philippine politics for the next six years. Then, in an avalanche of mass amnesia, the voters will once again shoot themselves in the foot by electing BongBong Marcos as the next President and he will continue the family business of exporting plundered hard currency to offshore bank accounts. And his mother will be so proud of him.

And given that Cebu City voters have elected the Duterte-wannabe Tomy Osmena as Mayor over the rather more decent Mike Rama, it may be adviseable to avoid that city for a while. Osmena is the guy who actively encourages vigilantes and has told the Police that he will pay a reward of Php 50,000 for every criminal they shoot dead or Php 5,000 if only wounded. He's a nationalist and volubly dislikes foreigners - the last time he was Mayor, he was quoted as saying that foreigners arriving at Mactan airport should be divested of their cash and immediately put on the next flight out. He was not joking.