Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Danny Lim dies at the age of 65, Palace announced on Wednesday.
According to Palace spokesperson Harry Roque, Danny Lim died before 8 am on January 6, 2020. The MMDA chairman said last week he tested positive for COVID-19.
“MMDA Chair Lim served the Duterte administration with professionalism, competence, and integrity. He would be dearly missed,” Roque said.
“May the perpetual light shine upon him, and may his soul, through the mercy of the Almighty, rest in eternal peace.”
Danilo Delapuz Lim was a Filipino brigadier general who also served as Chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority from 2017 until he died in 2021.
He was incarcerated at the Camp Crame in Quezon City from 2006 to 2010 for rebellion charges and attempted coup d’état. After more than 4 years in prison, Lim was granted temporary freedom by the Armed Forces of the Philippines on May 31, 2010.
On November 29, 2007, the same group triggered a standoff at the Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati, where he called for Arroyo’s ouster.
MMDA chairman Danny Lim dies at 65
On September 20, 2009, Lim announced his plan to join the 2010 senatorial race, as an independent candidate where he was invited to join 3 senatorial slates, namely the Liberal Party of then-Senator Benigno Aquino III, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino of former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada and former Senator Jamby Madrigal. He assumed the post of Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs under Aquino’s administration but resigned in July 2013 due to corruption in the bureau.
Lim joined the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte on May 22, 2017, as MMDA chief replacing acting chairman and general manager Thomas Orbos.
Danny Lim is a member of the Philippine Military Academy Makatarungan Class 1978. He is the mistah of the adopted member, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, former President of the Philippines, and the former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, General Delfin N. Bangit, AFP.
While a plebe, he took the entrance exam to the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, one of the world’s premier military academies, because of his outstanding performance as a cadet. He topped the exams.