President Rodrigo Roa Duterte presents to the media Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte presents to the media Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, the remaining kidnap victim of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), after being released by his captors on Friday (September 16, 2016) in Indanan, Sulu.

Sekkingstad is one of the four (4) victims taken hostage by the ASG in Samal, Davao del Norte last November 2015. The other hostages were Canadians James Ridsdel and Robert Hall who were beheaded by the bandit group, and Filipina Marites Flor who was released last June.

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De Lima witness "Rody Duterte Code Name Charlie Mike"

Edgar Matobato told the Senate that he was a previous individual from the "Davao Death Squad." He talked around a few occasions when President Rodrigo Duterte, then chairman of Davao City, educated them to execute individuals.

Matobato revealed that after the 1993 shelling of the Davao Cathedral in Davao City, "Umorder si Duterte na masscare-in yung Mosque ng mga muslim." (Duterte issued the request to slaughter the Muslims in the mosque.)

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He said it was Duterte himself who went to their office to give them the occupation. Matobato said he was the person who heaved the explosive at Bangkerohan Mosque.

No one was harmed amid the blast, in any case. (Perused: A past filled with bombings in Davao)

Matobato said the individuals from the demise squad were "phantom representatives" at the Davao City Hall under the "Common Security Unit."

In 2002, Matobato reviewed that Duterte again requested them to murder a specific "Sally Makdum." He said the gathering abducted and slaughtered him, and slashed him to pieces.

Matobato said Ronald dela Rosa, now the head of the Philippine National Police (PNP) who was at the Thursday Senate hearing, thought about this operation as he was at the time the head of Davao City's Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force.

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Matobato said he was initial a Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) part under the Scout Rangers in Davao City. He was later enrolled into the "Lambada Boys." They occupation should execute offenders in the city – drug pushers, attackers, and snatchers.

The Davao Death Squad is a vigilante bunch in Davao City that objectives culprits. Duterte, who was leader of Davao for more than two decades before accepting the administration, has for quite some time been connected to the gathering.

Duterte at one time "asserted" responsibility for Davao Death Squad, additionally demanded that there is no proof to connection him to the vigilante bunch.

Matobato said

Matobato they were requested to grab and later, execute Salim Makdum. Matobato says PNP boss Dela Rosa, then head of PAOCTF, thought about this.

Source: Rappler

LOOK: Biggest Clam Pearl in the world

Puerto Princesa City- A fisherman from Palawan entrusted his ever kept and claimed to be the biggest natural giant pearl in the world to the City Tourism Office.

The pearl weighed 34 kilograms and is measuring  1 foot wide, 2.2 feet long. They said that it is much bigger than the gigantic pearl found in 2014, which only weighs 24.7 kilos.

The giant pearl was turned over to them by a certain man from Palawan who luckily found the specimen while he was fishing more than a decade ago, Puerto Princesa City Tourism Officer Aileen Cynthia Amurao said.

“Sumabit sa angkla nila ng minsan sila nangisda, naabutan ng bagyo, sumabit itong shell na mayroon palang pearl,” Amurao stated.

Amurao also added that the owner did know of the pearl’s value but only kept it to bring luck and since the fisherman has always changing residency, he decided to entrust it to City Tourism Officer (CTO) who then turned it over to the City Government of Palawan.

“Humihingi ako ng tulong sa inyo sa mga gemologist, baka mayroon tayo dito na puwedeng mag-certify ng authenticity nito at mag-appraise," Amurao stressed.

He called the attention of the Gemologist Institute to properly authenticate and appraise the said giant clam pearl.

The CTO wishes that this new discovery in their place will help boost tourism in the city.

The said pearl will be presented for public viewing on Monday, August 22, at the Puerto Princesa City Hall.

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Espinosa's Lawyer and Companion shot dead

Tacloban City, Ph. - Mayor Rolando Espinosa yesterday sought assistance from the provincial Police as unidentified gunmen shot dead his lawyer, Rogelio Bato Jr. 48, and his 15 year-old female companion in Tacloban City.

The gunmen riddled with bullets the victim’s car from an M-16 and a .45 caliber pistol both the lawyer and his companion died instantly.

When asked about the ambush, Espinosa refused to comment about it but said that he will cooperate with the authorities and will give more information on the drug activities of his son Kerwin, who is still at large.

Chief Insp. Jovie Espinido, Albuera Police accompanied Espinosa to the provincial headquarters and disclosed that the Mayor will identify the Police officers and other top government official linked to illegal drugs and if he is qualified, he could apply as a state witness against illegal drugs operations of his son and his cohorts.

But it is the DOJ’s decision if he would be qualified to be a state witness, and at this time, we are here to secure him. Espinido said.

Espinosa’s daughter said that they are no longer safe and they are in danger as of the moment now that their lawyer was killed, and they fear that their father and his relatives could be the next target, although she confirmed, that his brother Kerwin is the only one involved in the drug trade in their family.

The National Police Commission removed the Espinosa’s authority to supervise the Police after he was named by the President to be involved in illegal drugs. Although he insisted that only his son was engaged in the trafficking.

PNP region 8, Palo Leyte, led by acting regional police Chief Supt. Elmer Beltejar, vowed to conduct a thorough investigation and immediate arrest of the killers.

Source: Interaksyon

LOOK: Duterte reveals Matrix links De Lima in illegal drugs

As President Rodrigo Duterte promised to reveal the said matrix that would linked Senator Leila De Lima to illegal drugs.

The most awaited matrix has finally come to surprise us that the Sen. De Lima, Ronnie Dayan(ex-driver of De Lima), BM Raul Sison, Congressman Amado Espino, Raffy Baraan, Gen. Franklin Bucayo and DOJ Usec Toti Baraan are on the list.

Allegedly the senator was said to have a driver who is her lover and has helped in collecting the money out of the narco from the New Bilibid Prison of Muntinlupa.

President Duterte and Depart. of Justice Secretary Aguirre said that they effectively assembled witnesses that can demonstrate the assertions against Sen. De Lima.

The President conceded that the Senator is not straightforwardly included in unlawful drug trade, but rather she is tolerating cash from the drug lords to keep up their business inside the National Penitentiary.



Source: PTV

LOOK: Duterte to reveal matrix, proves De Lima the highest officiallinks to illegal drugs

After Senator Leila De Lima denied the President Rodrigo Duterte's accusation against her and said that it's an “absolute lie.” and she also said that she is “willing to be shot” in front of the President if the allegations to her will be proven true.

As quoted De Lima stated,“I’m denying it again. That’s an absolute lie, that’s completely false,” referring to her drug links.

The latter said that De Lima was the highest ranking official who has links to illegal drugs, Duterte said during the oath-taking of generals and flag officers at Rizal Hall, Malacañang.

Duterte added that he would come out next week with a matrix that would show the involvement of the senator in narco inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), Duterte said on Tuesday.

“I will show to you, maybe this week, the matrix. I am just validating the matrix in Muntinlupa. De Lima is included in the matrix. So it would share her role there,” the President said at the sideline of the oath-taking of generals and flag officers at the Palace’s Rizal Hall.

However, Duterte refused to give detailed information about the matrix, he also gave clues that a certain governor and an undersecretary were also on the list.

He stressed, “When I go out with the matrix, you will know. There is also a governor and you know, he’s my friend, I could not believe it but he’s there in the revelation. There’s a governor and an undersecretary."

Asked if it is the former Justice undersecretary Francisco Baraan III, Duterte answered, "How did you know? Yes, he is."

Duterte also said that during the time of De lima being Justice Secretary of DOJ that most of the detainees were given preferential treatment inside the NBP.

Duterte explained, “There were parties being held almost every night; there was a combo, a musical group; liquors and alcoholic drinks flowed freely and women went inside and out the prison."

“If she would face me here, I would tell her: Explain to me your immorality and explain to me your connection with the drug people… She cannot deny it because there are pictures taken at that time. But she never for a moment just deny it,” Duterte added referring to De Lima.

Source: Sunstar

VIDEO: Trillanes: We know what is right. We weren’t trained in theacademy to do what’s wrong & illegal

On Monday, during the Senate inquiry on the alleged extrajudicial killings in the country, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was having the chance to ask the Philippine National Police Chief Dir. General Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, “We were not trained by the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) to do what’s wrong and illegal,” Trillanes said referring to Dela Rosa.

While Dela Rosa was on the grill by Trillanes, he refreshed his memory that the PMA did not teach them to participate themselves in something illegal.

“Let’s just do the right thing. Alam natin kung ano ang tama. Hindi tayo tinrain sa academy to do what’s wrong and illegal" "We know what is right. We weren’t trained in the academy to do what’s wrong and illegal,” Trillanes said.

Trillanes was known for heading the Oakwood Mutiny on 2003  when he and some of the officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) protested for alleged spreading corruption inside the government.

Dela Rosa and Trillanes were both from PMA class, Dela Rosa is from “Sinagtala” Class of 1986 while Trillanes is from “Marilag” Class of 1995.

Trillanes also cautioned the policemen that President Rodrigo Duterte will not always be there to protect them because he has only six years on his term.

“General, umiikot ‘yung mundo eh. Ngayon si Duterte naka-pwesto; eh malay natin ‘yung susunod na pwesto ang priority ay human rights at magconduct ng investigation, by then retired na kayo at nakatiwang-wang mga pulis,” Trillanes added.

For almost seven and a half years Trillanes was also detained before after leading the protest against corruption.

“Kapag binuksan ang honest to goodness investigations, kailangan properly sagutin nila. Otherwise, sila rin manangot long after commanders nila nagretire na—‘yung mga nag-guarantee sa kanila na, ‘Sagot ko kayo,’ walang mangyayari habang sila nasa pwesto. Pero hindi sila habang buhay nakapwesto,” Trillanes said.

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Source: Inquirer

LOOK: Drug lord in Dipolog City assassinated while set to appear incourt

A big time drug pusher detainee was gunned down on Friday morning by still unidentified sniper when he was about to have a court appearance in Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte.

The big time pusher was identified as RG Cuenco Guico of Barangay Barra, Dipolog City disclosed by Police Chief Superintendent Lito Abaya. Revealed in the police investigation that upon disembarking from the vehicle of Bureau of Jail and Penology (BJMP) At around 9:30am. He was with another detainee named Arjay Recocosa. According to crime investigation, the shooter might have had positioned himself at about 40 meters away when he shot Guico.

Although hit and wounded, Guico was able to run inside the Hall of Justice with Recocosa and with the BJMP escorts. He was hit on his right chest. Guico and Recocosa was set to appear at the sala of Branch 10 where they are charged with the violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

The wounded drug pusher was then rushed to the Corazon Aquino Hospital but expired while undergoing medical operation. According to Andaya, the unidentified assassin was quick to find escape on board a white van and was not known which direction the assassin took. Up to this writing, the police is yet to identify which type of gun was used for the assassination.

The police believes that the motive is to keep Guico silent. Guico was detained for the last seven years at the Dipolog City Correctional and Rehabilitation Center for his involvement in the illegal drug trade. PSUPT Andaya said that they will keep the investigation ongoing in order to identify the said mastermind of the assassination.

Source:  Philstar

VIDEO: Mocha Uson interviews Sec. Aguirre

Dahil ito ang isa sa mga programa ng mahal na Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na sugpoin ang droga sa bansa, tuloy-tuloy parin ang pag-iimbestiga laban sa ilegal na droga ika nga ng  Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II.

At masusugpo lamang ito kung ang uunahin ang sinasabing drug protector o drug lord na di umano'y mga malalaking pangalan at mahirap banggain.

Isa na dito sa nasangkot ang pangalan ng dating DOJ Sec. Leila De Lima, totoo nga ba talaga?

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LOOK: Driver of De Lima owns two houses?

Senator Leila De Lima's driver Ronnie Dayan allegedly owned a 2-story white house in Barangay Galarin, Urbiztondo, Pangasinan province.

The neighbors of Dayan were asked by Inquirer about President Rodrigo Duterte's allegation that the white house was De Lima's gift to his driver but they neither said yes or no.

It was on Wednesday that Duterte said that De Lima and her driver was having a relationship and that Dayan was the bagman of De Lima who was allegedly collecting the pays from illegal drug trade.

Village chief of Brgy. Galarin Rodolfo Licuanan, stated that the children of Dayan live in the orange bungalow house just about 100 meters away from the said white house and was just finished on March this year.

Dayan has two married children and one child that is still in high school Licuanan said.

The Inquirer asked Licuanan if De Lima paid the house for Dayan, the village chief shook his head, “I don’t know,” he said.

Licuanan also claimed that De Lima was staying in Dayan’s house whenever she is present in the town.

“I knew she was around because people would tell me that she was here,” Licuanan said, referring to the time when De Lima was still Department of Justice chief.

Last December 2015 De Lima had distributed the villagers some gifts, Licuanan said and, “A little cash, P50 for the children and P100 for the adults. But she did not go around; it’s the people who went to the house."

Another Urbiztondo resident said Dayan and his family used to live with his parents in a small house in the village.

A resident of Barangay Galarin said that “We would see them on weekends. She would arrive on a Saturday and leave on a Sunday,”

And sometimes, the two would be seen coming in the public market to buy some vegetables and fish.

Provincial police director Senior Supt. Ronald Lee said,“It’s open knowledge in the village who financed the building of that house,” on Thursday during a presscon in Lingayen, Pangasinan.

“He is just a driver and residents say he could not have bought that property by himself,” Lee stated.

During a party in 2014, Dayan had allegedly threatened a village watchman or barangay tanod and punched a police officer because they confronted Dayan for firing a pistol in the party, this is a recorded documents from Urbiztondo police which have presented by Lee.

“We want to be updated on the case,” Lee said.

“Was there really a settlement? There was talk that two government prosecutors went to the police station to settle the case at that time,” Lee added.

Source: MB  and Inquirer

Sison: Duterte and I remain good friends

Despite the rough talks they have said to each other, New People's Army (NPA), Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison said that President Rodrigo Duterte and him are still good friends.

Sison, whose now based in Netherlands said, “Once more I am grateful to President Duterte for his acts of goodwill to move forward the peace negotiations between his government and the NDFP,” on his statement on social media account.

“He has made possible the release of the JASIG (Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees)-protected NDFP consultants from prison and has graciously met the NDFP lawyers and consultants together with his negotiators and other officials,” Sison added, referring to President Duterte.

Sison's statements comes after the release of consultants involved in the peace talks and the president's meeting with NDFP peace panel members.

It started when Duterte declared unilateral ceasefire in the time of his State of the Nation Address (Sona) and the CPP failed to answer the president before his announced deadline.

To recall, Duterte called Sison as an "arrogant", however Sison called him as "hoodlun" (butangero) after the president demanded that CPP should declare ceasefire in the country.

“Despite a previous glitch in our communications, President Duterte and I remain good friends,” Sison said and, “Our friendship has a strong basis in longstanding cooperation and in a common desire to serve the national and democratic rights and best interests of the Filipino people.”

Sison also added that they “have plenty of mutual friends” who have help “maintain” their friendship.

“We are both inspired by the principles and objectives of Kabataang Makabayan and driven by the patriotic desire to continue the unfinished revolution of Andres Bonifacio,” he said.

“BAYAN and the producers of the film TIBAK (Kabataang Makabayan) have notified us of the plan to give us the Gawad Supremo soon in honor of Bonifacio.”

Sison stated that the both of them will be “in touch with each other”the formal peace talks in Oslo, Norway.

VIDEO: New E-Passport of PH to be released

The most awaited new passport is coming and it is said to be released in few weeks.

The cost will be just the same but the designs and new added security features will be placed on each passport to identify the personal data of the applicant.

It's one of the most visually striking passports of the world according to Consul General Paul Raymund Cortes of Dubai.

Still a 44 pages passport and its designs feature the wonderful places of the Philippines like the Malacanang Palace, streets of Vigan, Banawe rice terraces, Mt. Pinatubo, Mt. Taal, San Juanico bridge and etc.

Watch the video and tell us if you are satisfied with the passport of the Philippines.

DOH: Dengue cases increase this year

Because it's rainy season, it is expected that dengue cases will increase, Department of Health- Spokesperson Dr. Eric Tayag said in a press conference held in Tayuman, Sta. Cruz, Manila.

DOH cited on Tuesday that there are 84,085 dengue cases from the period of Jan. 1 to Aug. 6, 2016,  and having 15.8 percent increase compare to the 72,627 dengue cases during the same period last year.

If any barangay of municipality or in provinces have recorded dengue cases for 4 consecutive weeks a dengue alert zone is being declared to that area.

Also, the government hospitals were put in an alert mode, to activate dengue express lanes and respond immediately for treating and guiding patients suspected dengue, when a certain barangay was put on a dengue hotzone, Tayag said.

However, Tayag explained that there was no epidemic happening yet.

We also have to do our part as citizen, we have to clean our environment.

“Let us search together the portions where clear stagnant water are being stored…we have to cover them so that mosquitoes will not be able to lay their egg there,” Tayag said.

There are 372 death cases for dengue in total this year.

Here are the list of provinces considered as dengue hotzones; Pangasinan, Pampanga, Zambales, Batangas, Laguna, Rizal, Oriental Mindoro, Antique, Negros Occidental, Cebu, Negros Oriental, Southern Leyte, Bukidnon, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Oriental, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental, Apayao, Benguet and Metro Manila.

Meanwhile, Tayag explained that not all municipalities and barangays under the said provinces are dengue hotzones.

He stated for example the NCR which Pasig City and Quezon City are on the list.

And on its list only Barangay Pinagbuhatan is in Pasig City and Barangay Fairview, Batasan Hills, Pinyahan and Holy Spirit are in Quezon City.

Source: PNA

SWS: Aquino admin’s last net satisfaction rating ‘very good’... thenDuterte started his term

The administration of former President Benigno Aquino III received a “very good” net satisfaction rating just days before he stepped down from office, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

Results of SWS poll conducted from June 24 to 27 among 1,200 respondents showed that Aquino’s net satisfaction rating rose to a “very good” +50 from a “good” +35 in April this year.

This was before Rody Duterte started his term and started a massive campaign against illegal drugs and corruption which exposed the past administration of Pnoy to be a coddler of big time Drug Lords and corrupt officials which could have ended the Philippines as a narco state.

Did Pnoy coddled drug Lords? Most definitely yes! Either out of his sheer incompetence, or outright conspiracy...

That’s the only conclusion one would get after the police all over the country, following incoming President Duterte’s announced priority, have arrested or killed drug lords and dealers in just a few weeks.

All of a sudden — with thousands of self-admitted, small-time dealers and users even surrendering to authorities, fearing they would be victims of summary executions — the nation has been awakened to the reality that our drug problem, which really afflicts mostly the poor, indeed has reached horrific proportions. So much so that many sectors of this purportedly Catholic nation are now reviving the call for the death penalty.

Such scale of the illegal-drug and crime menace couldn’t have emerged overnight. I can only conclude that President Aquino allowed it to grow during his six years in office. He had hundreds of millions of pesos in confidential funds, and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (headed by his executive secretary, Paquito Ochoa), yet did little to fight the drug lords.

Anyway, back to the statistics of Pnoy’s rating....

Results of SWS poll conducted from June 24 to 27 this year, among 1,200 respondents showed that Aquino’s net satisfaction rating rose to a “very good” +50 from a “good” +35 in April this year.

below, “SWS terminology for net satisfaction ratings are as follows: +70 and above, “excellent;” +50 to +69, “very good;” +30 to +49, “good;” +10 to +29, “moderate;” +9 to -9, “neutral;” -10 to -29, “poor;” -30 to -49, “bad;” -50 to -69, “very bad;” -70 and execrable.”

December 2013 was the last time the Aquino Administration received a “very good” net satisfaction rating. While his highest was in June 2013 at +66

Specific issues:

For developing Science and Technology (+54)

Promoting the welfare of OFW (+52)

Helping the poor (+51)

Foreign relations (+48)

Defending the country’s territorial rights (+45)

Restoring peace to Mindanao (+43)

Providing jobs (+40)

Fighting crimes (+31)

Meanwhile, the following issues received a moderate NET satisfaction:

Eradicating graft and corruption (+27)

Reconciliation with Muslim rebels (+25)

Communist rebels (+25)

Ensuring that no family will be hungry (+25)

Fighting inflation (+19)

Aquino’s administration also had a higher net satisfaction rating in:

Visayas (+62)

Mindanao (+60)

NCR (+32)

Luzon (+45)

Classes:

Class D and E (+51)

Class ABC (+24)

Duterte

“President Rodrigo R. Duterte however, begins his stint as the country’s 16th president with an overwhelming majority of his constituents expressing trust in him (91% Excellent) and practically no one distrusting him (0.2%). The rest of Filipinos (8%) cannot say if they trust or distrust President Duterte,” Pulse Asia president Ronald Holmes said.

Source: Inquirer

CHR Chief to Duterte: Start filing cases

After President Rodrigo  Duterte named the 159 public officials allegedly involved in drugs, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) encouraged him to start filing cases.

CHR Chair Jose Luis “Chito” Gascon said that the president had not filed a case in court yet against the judges, mayors and police officials he named which would give them a way in defending their selves from his allegation.

Gascon stated, “The Constitution establishes a system of justice and rule of law that requires both due process and presumption of innocence guarantees, among others."

To note Gascon is also against the extra-judicial killings happening in the country, which brought sour words spoken between him and the president.

“Thus, when a crime has either been or is alleged to have been committed, law enforcement must conduct an investigation with a view to charging the accused in the proper forum so a hearing could be conducted whereby the evidence would be considered to establish either the guilt or innocence of the same,” Gascon added.

All the alleged drug coddlers who were named by Duterte, like the mayors were ordered to cancel their firearms and bodyguards, the police officials to report into their mother units and the judges to the Supreme Court for proper disposition.

Gascon reiterated that, “I stress once more that this mandate he assumes includes the duty to guarantee human rights for all."

Ifugao Representative Teddy Baguilat said that Duterte’s failure to do something after his accusation to the shamed officials, it would turn out to be a “witch-hunt” without particular end aim.

“After naming and causing them embarrassment, next is to file cases, especially when there is strong evidence. If there are no cases filed and no one among these people prosecuted and jailed, then what we had was a witch hunt. Or worse, we momentarily stopped the drug trade but left it open for a resurgence in the future,” Baguilat stressed.

Source:  Inquirer

DFA: New hi-tech passport, 5 days to release

Manila: Presidential Communications Office (PCO) announced that the new passports with added security features, which will be delivered in a shorter period of time from the production facility to the DFA, would be available starting Monday, Sec. Andanar announced.

It will have the “all new high-security features” placed, such as upgraded security microchip to capture the personal data of the applicant, invisible UV fluorescent ink and thread plus more elaborate designs when subjected to UV light and contains patterns that would promote regions of the country. An intaglio printing, used for printing “money” and “Coat of Arms” is used, providing an optical illusion ink where color varies at different angles. Also, Philippine eagle and turtle are among the distinguishable designs that can be noticed.

Increased production People who wish to go to other countries are assured that the new passports would be readily available due to the fact that the APO unit, an agency supervised by the PCO, was able to increase the production by 35%. This means that the usual average of 7- 14 days of making passports from the press to the DFA office will now be reduced to just 5 days.

This is the objective of the PCO to further improve the printing processes and cut the delivery period of passports from the APO Lima plant in Batangas to the DFA office within 4 days by next year, (2017) according to Sec. Andanar. This is all good news to the Filipino people.

Source: Philstar

Duterte: Bury him not as hero but as a soldier and former President ofthe Republic

In his undaunted decision in allowing the burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos, President Duterte is not worried of the opposition, Malacanang said on Monday.

Secretary Andanar said the Presidential Legal adviser Salvador Panelo is task to find all legal remedies surrounding the issue. “it’s up to him to make recommendation to the President.” Andanar said.

As far as the regulation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines is concerned, the allowing of the burial of former soldiers and Presidents at the Libingan does not distinguish if the President is good or bad and the government would block all legal remedies against the President’s decision. Panelo stated.

Furthermore, Sec. Andanar reiterated that President Duterte would have the Marcos family bury the remains of President Marcos in a special cemetery intended for war heroes and former Presidents and the President’s stance is firm and is not distracted while focusing on winning the war on drugs, criminality and corruption.

President Duterte’s admiration for President Marcos is known publicly and is also recognizing the right of those who criticize his decision stressing that he would not bar them if they want to protest. “They can go in the streets if they want to” he said.

However, former President Ramos said that the Marcos burial must have a concurrence of congress and Sec. Andanar would ask House speaker Pantaleon Alvarez for his comment about this matter.

The Deal

The 1992 agreement was drafted between former President Ramos and the Marcos family that the remains of President Marcos would be allowed to be brought back in the Philippines from Hawaii to be buried, but only in Ilocos Norte Province and not in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

Nevertheless, this Government is pursuing on the plan, as the President said that the Marcos’ burial will allow the country to “move on” and that the former President has the right to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani since he served this country as a soldier and was elected as President.

Source: Inquirer

CBCP on drug users: May Pag-asa pa kayong magbago

"While we passionately dissent the expansion of rundown killings, we should start thinking responsibly to clergyman to those needing leniency and peaceful sympathy as they long for better lives subsequent to recouping from medication misuse," Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Socrates Villegas said in a message after a development course on the peaceful consideration of medication clients Friday at the Lay Formation Center here.

"The late increment of vigilante killings identified with the medication misuse issue brings us vexing peaceful sadness and calls for purposeful peaceful activity," Villegas, who is likewise Lingayen-Dagupan diocese supervisor, said.

"Give us a chance to join against medications however let us offer an other option to murdering lawbreakers," he said in a message to clerics, nuns and lay catechists who participated in the workshop.

In his message, he refered to the requirement for a Gospel-propelled contrasting option to slaughtering drug pushers and clients.

Villegas said they are setting up a 10-session preparing workshop for facilitators for Narcotics Anonymous in chose wards in the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan.

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He said they require Narcotics Anonymous clergymen with authentic nurturing individuals and with adequate correspondence and essential advising abilities.

He exhorted clerics in his archdiocese to search for volunteers who can meet the necessities.

"This is an earnest peaceful concern. We can't give individuals a chance to get slaughtered and bite the dust," he said.

The message for the miscreant, he pushed, ought to be trust and not demise. "Our weapon is affection not retaliation. The blood of the Lord is sufficient," he brought up.

The Salesian ministers of Don Bosco Philippines-North Province, in the interim, refered to "advocated dread" over the rising number of passings even as they reaffirmed their backing for a strengthened battle by the Duterte organization against illicit medications.

"We are frightened by the late rush of extrajudicial killings that have occurred on account of cops, and particularly of vigilantes wandering our boulevards unchecked and un-secured," they said in an announcement.

"Such vicious method in handling the circumstance specified above has created supported trepidation among the dominant part of our subjects who are against any type of medication trafficking yet anticipate that equity will be rendered by," they included.

They said they concurred with the President's recognition that law authorization organizations and the nation's equity framework have neglected to stop the spread of the utilization of unlawful medications, particularly among the youthful.

"We share his observation that numerous law implementers and our present legal frameworks have regularly neglected to convey to equity the culprits of such egregious wrongdoings which, in an ever-more noteworthy degree, have been exploiting a large number of our youngsters and their families," the Salesian ministers said.

They additionally communicated gratefulness for Duterte's determination to handle illicit medications, now considered "an intense issue in our nation."

Source: Philstar

Duterte to Misuari: I am appealing to you to stop this war

The tough talking President Rodrigo Duterte wants to end the years of uprising against the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) for the president knew, that leader of MNLF Nur Misuari would be a great help.

The president journeyed to Jolo, Sulu to personally meet and convince Misuari.

Duterte said,“My job when I became President was really to seek peace, not war,”as the president talks to soldiers and Moro rebels in Sulu and ask them to give his government the chance.

Misuari disappeared after the military operation in Zamboanga City that killed 200 people and thousands of injured. The said attack was done by his MNLF supporters to wreck the government’s peace deal with the MILF.

The siege lasted for a couple of days and destroyed more than 10,000 homes in the city.

“I’ve been telling him if we can just talk about peace, let’s find ways,” the President said of Misuari,

Misuari also led the 1996 signing of a peace deal to the government. He became governor of the Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao, which is still in the line of poverty despite some millions of pesos placed to it.

However, Duterte assured Misuari the his government is ready enough and asked his Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza and the other members to somehow talk to Misuari.

Duterte wanted a unified talks with all Moro groups saying, “The other half with Nur and the other half with the MILF even as he appealed to Misuari to keep the peace while talks were going on."

He also said the government was ready to thwart any assault,“It’s better that you die than them," he said.

On Thursday night on Davao, Duterte said that he do not want Misuari to be detained and if anything will happen to to him you can never talk again with them, with the Tausug.

“Now, Misuari is getting old. I’m not saying, not saying, that he’s sick. But with the fragile condition of his age, he does not need to be pursued and I do not want him detained,” he stated. "If something happens to Misuari while we’re detaining him, that would be a big problem, as in big,” he stressed. “So you lose the chance, even if it’s a small one, to have peace talks with anybody there. That is dangerous.”

Duterte stressed,“I  hope this is now the time for peace so that our troops can also go home. They will enjoy the peace of the land and go back to their families."

“I am appealing to you to stop this war, I am pleading. I will talk to  you,” the president said.

source: Inquirer

WATCH: Worth P1 Million Pesos Found in Cebu City Jail

Clad in full fight equip and conveying powerful guns, around 300 policemen struck the male quarters of the Cebu City Jail and the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC)— both situated in the bumpy barangay (town) of Kalunasan, Cebu City at 1:25 a.m.

Prisoners were requested that evacuate their garments and stay in one corner as agents of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) looked the possessions and rooms of the two correctional facility offices one by one.

Starting 6 a.m., in any event P1 million money was recouped from the Cebu City Jail, said Senior Supt. Rey Lyndon Lawas, PRO-7 delegate chief for operations.

Police were all the while directing a stock of the seized things that included nubain, a managed painkiller; bladed weapons, level screen TVs, sets of elastic shoes, individual apparatuses and a few medication gear.

A large number of the stash were recouped from the Cebu City Jail.

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There was no compelling reason to secure a court order from the court subsequent to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and additionally Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide gave the police the consent to seek the region and city correctional facility, said Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, chief of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7).

Taliño said PRO-7 on Friday got a data about the illicit medication operations inside the Cebu City Jail.

The previous Special Action Force boss promptly brought forth to lead a "Greyhound Operation" inside the Cebu City Jail and additionally the close-by the CPDRC.

The police power was increased by specialists of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and BJMP officers.

Three K9 pooches from PDEA and the Philippine Coast Guard helped in seeking the booty.

"In view of the data we got, the correctional facilites have turned into a business opportunity for unlawful medications. Drug clients come here as though they would visit detainees however as a general rule they purchase and utilize drugs. They do it in a correctional facility since they fear the Oplan Tokhang being led by the police outside the prison," said Taliño.

He said they were exploring how the illicit medications and other stash slip past the correctional facility monitors at the passageway doors.

Charges will be recorded against the prisoners from whom the booty were seized.

Source: INQUIRER