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(Eagle News) — Benjamin Magalong will return as Baguio City’s chief executive after he was proclaimed the winner of the mayoralty race by the Commission on Elections. Reelectionists Faustino Olowan and Mark Go also retained their vice mayoral and congressional posts, respectively. In a statement, Magalong, a former chief of the Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, thanked his supporters for their trust. “I am inspired to serve you even better and set […]
(Eagle News) — Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong has tested positive for COVID-19 anew. Magalong himself made the revelation in a radio interview on Wednesday, Feb. 2. According to Magalong, he was so far experiencing mild symptoms and was so far on the fourth day of his home isolation. Magalong has received his booster shot against COVID-19. This is the second time the Baguio mayor has contracted the virus. In April last year, he also […]
(Eagle News)–Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, Magalong, also the country’s contact tracing czar, said this was based on the results of the RT-PCR test he took on April 2. He said contact tracing is underway. “The seriousness of this pandemic is something that we should not take for granted. It is a difficult situation and I don’t want anyone of you to be in this condition as it […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, Feb. 2, said President Rodrigo Duterte “surely” wants Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong to stay on as the country’s contact tracing czar. “I have heard with my own two ears nothing but words of praises for Mayor Magalong from the President,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. He made the comment after Magalong tendered his resignation from the post after he admitted lapses in a party to boost tourism in Baguio […]
(Eagle News) — Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong has tendered his resignation as the country’s contact tracing czar. But Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said his resignation was rejected by the National Task Force Against COVID-19. “He continues to enjoy the trust and confidence of the leadership of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19,” Roque said. Magalong’s move came after he attended a party where he admitted health protocols had been violated. The party hosted […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday, July 13, named the four “czars” who will directly oversee several aspects of the Philippines’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an online briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar will be the “chief isolation czar.” Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong was named the “contact tracing czar,” or the person in charge of the country’s contact tracing efforts. The Baguio government has […]
(Eagle News)–The Baguio City government has accused the group of San Juan, Metro Manila Mayor Francis Zamora of violating health protocols when they reportedly ignored a border control checkpoint and proceeded to their designation in the city without undergoing the mandatory triage health examination. Zamora for his part has apologized. In a statement, Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong said based on a report by Philippine National Police Baguio City director Allan Rae Co, Zamora arrived […]
(Eagle News)–Former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong has welcomed the charges recommended against former Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde by a joint Senate panel that probed the ninja cops issue. It was Magalong, now the Baguio mayor, who told senators about Albayalde’s call to then-Central Luzon regional police director Aaron Aquino for him not to implement the dismissal order against the 13 policemen behind an irregular drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga […]
(Eagle News)–“Onti lang naman napunta sa akin diyan.” This was what then-Brigadier General Rudy Lacadin said Oscar Albayalde, then the Pampanga provincial director, told him during a phone call sometime after the irregular raid in Mexico, Pampanga. Lacadin, who was then the deputy director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, said Albayalde called him after learning he had been tasked by then-CIDG chief Benjamin Magalong to conduct a probe into the raid led by […]
(Eagle News)–Even before the 2013 raid in Mexico, Pampanga, there were already reports of several policemen recycling illegal drugs. This was confirmed by former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong, who said he received reports then-Chief Insp. Bienvenido Reydado and his men, who were assigned in Angeles, were also involved in the illegal activities. He said he received the information from two of Reydado’s men, who said they could no longer take what […]
(Eagle News)–The joint Senate committee looking into the Good Conduct Time Allowance law resumed its hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 9, with two former high-ranking police officials who probed the irregular 2013 Pampanga raid attending the hearing. Former Central Luzon command chief Raul Petrasanta, who ordered former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong to hold the probe into the raid conducted by the 13 policemen, and Alan Purisima, then the Philippine National Police chief, […]
(Eagle News)–Former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Chief Benjamin Magalong on Wednesday, Oct. 2, said he does not recall asking now-Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde for a “little favor” between 2006 and 2010. Magalong told ANC that in the first place, during that time, the administration of then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was “against him,” noting that he had been charged with rebellion for supposedly planning to destabilize the government in 2006. He was later absolved. […]
