Jaime Laya, the Central Bank governor during the Marcos dictatorship, is back under another Marcos as the chair of the CCP where he plans to promote culture and the arts through innovative ways that appeal to the youth. | janebautistaINQ /PDI
Laya said the competition started last year with many participants; some winners even managed to secure commercial contracts.
“When you win in these competitions, people tend to forget you. At PHSA, we pick and support students with potential but after graduating, they are also forgotten,” Laya said. In a Senate hearing last September, CCP president Margarita Moran-Floirendo announced that it would temporarily close its doors for two to three years to make way for renovation and structural retrofitting.
During the forum, he shared that he was discovered by the late dictator’s chief economic planner Gerardo Sicat, who insisted on his appointment even if “President Marcos did not know me at all.” Laya said he was initially uninterested because he was already the dean of the University of the Philippines College of Business Administration and a partner in the accounting firm SGV.“I was 33 years old. Imagine, he is the martial law dictator, talking to me, persuading me, so I got flattered,” he said.Laya was one of the first Philippine officials to say publicly that the 1983 assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr.
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