Philippine Embassy beefs up staff

One of eight additional staff members scheduled to beef up the Philippine Embassy’s staff has arrived, according to Ambassador Ezzedin H. Tago.
“The arrival of Camalodin Patiri Manggis, a foreign service staff employee (FSSE), Class 1, is timely, considering that there’s always much work to do at the embassy. It is part of the adjustment of the ideal staffing pattern approved by the home office,” he said.
Two more Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) and five staff employees are scheduled to arrive. A translator will also be hired locally, Tago added.
Manggis has assumed his duties as assistant and attache at the Assistance to Nationals Section (ANS) of the embassy. He had earlier been posted at the Philippine Embassy in Abuja as consular assistant in charge of assistance to nationals and attache from 2003 to 2009.
He joined the DFA in 1993 and assigned at the consular office until 2001. Then he moved to the Office of Fiscal Management from 2001 to 2003 and Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs from 2009 to 2012.