Abdullah Mama-o
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| office = Secretary of Migrant Workers
| status = Ad interim
| president = Rodrigo Duterte
| term_start = March 9, 2022
| term_end = June 30, 2022
| predecessor = Office established
| successor = Susan Ople
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Abdullah Derupong Mama-o is a Filipino government official who served as the ad interim Secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers under the Duterte administration.{{cite news |last1=Galvez |first1=Daphne |title=Duterte picks Abdullah Mama-o to lead new Department of Migrant Workers |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1565829/duterte-picks-abdullah-mama-o-to-lead-new-department-of-migrant-workers |access-date=May 24, 2022 |work=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=March 9, 2022 |language=en}}
Education
Mama-o attended the San Beda College and graduated from the school in 1972.{{cite news |title=Mamao gives orders as secretary, but migrant workers’ agency yet to be set up |url=https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/inside-track/abdullah-mamao-gives-orders-secretary-department-migrant-workers-yet-be-constituted/ |access-date=May 24, 2022 |work=Rappler |date=April 8, 2022}}{{cite news |title=Rody appoints classmate presidential adviser on OFWs |url=https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/08/04/1609939/rody-appoints-classmate-presidential-adviser-ofws |access-date=May 24, 2022 |work=The Philippine Star |date=August 4, 2016}}
Career
President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Mama-o as the presidential adviser on Overseas Filipino Workers first tasking him of overseeing the repatriation of Filipinos in Saudi Arabia who were affected by a financial crisis.
He would be appointed as special envoy to Kuwait amidst the 2018 Kuwait–Philippines diplomatic crisis.{{cite news |title=Abdullah Mama-o new special envoy to Kuwait |url=https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/05/08/abdullah-mamao-special-envoy-kuwait.html |access-date=May 24, 2022 |work=CNN Philippines |date=May 8, 2018 |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524152355/https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/05/08/abdullah-mamao-special-envoy-kuwait.html |url-status=dead }}
In 2018, Duterte formed a task force, which Mama-o was made a member of, as part of a bid to free Filipinos who were kidnapped by armed militants in Libya.{{cite news |title=Cabinet members dispatched to Libya |url=https://www.tempo.com.ph/2018/08/08/cabinet-members-dispatched-to-libya/ |access-date=May 24, 2022 |work=Tempo}} In 2019, Mama-o helped facilitate the return of seven Filipinos in Libya who were accused of smuggling fuel.{{cite news |title=7 detained Filipino seafarers in Libya homeward bound |url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1064158 |access-date=May 24, 2022 |agency=Philippine News Agency |date=March 11, 2019 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Assad |first1=Abdulkader |title=Seven Filipino sailors leave Libya after being freed of fuel smuggling charges |url=https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/seven-filipino-sailors-leave-libya-after-being-freed-fuel-smuggling-charges |access-date=May 24, 2022 |work=The Libya Observer |date=March 11, 2019 |language=en}}
President Duterte would appoint Mama-o as the first secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) in March 9, 2022.{{cite news |title=Duterte taps Abdullah Mama-o to head new Department of Migrant Workers |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/09/22/abdullah-mama-o-to-lead-department-of-migrant-workers |access-date=May 24, 2022 |work=ABS-CBN News |date=March 9, 2022}} However the department is in a transition period and is expected to be fully operational by 2023.{{cite news |last1=Domingo |first1=Katrina |title=Migrant workers' group urges Marcos to keep Mama-o as OFW dept secretary |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/20/22/ofw-group-urges-marcos-to-keep-mama-o-as-dmw-secretary |access-date=May 24, 2022 |work=ABS-CBN News |date=May 20, 2022}}
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Filipino civil servants