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(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo is now the co-chair of the Inter-agency committee on anti-illegal drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte himself designated her to the position, based on an Oct. 31 letter signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and which was transmitted to Robredo’s office. Duterte’s move came after Robredo said the drug war had failed because it had failed to curb the number of drug addicts in the country. Earlier, Duterte said he was ready […]
(Eagle News)–Only President Rodrigo Duterte should lead the war on drugs, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Tuesday, Oct. 29. According to Lacson, a former Philippine National Police chief, only the President, after all, ” can wield sufficient authority and power over our law enforcement officials.” “Unless he delegates a blanket authority, including the power to hire and fire, no one else in the government bureaucracy can do it better than the Chief Executive under any […]
(Eagle News)–The joint Senate panel looking into the issue of ninja cops has cited in contempt another policeman behind the 2013 Pampanga raid found to have been irregular. It was Senate President Tito Sotto who motioned for SP01 Ronald Santos to be cited in contempt for his failure to appeare in Wednesday’s hearing. Senate minority leader Franklin Drilon and Senator Richard Gordon seconded the motion. The Senate panel had subpoenaed Santos, who was among 13 […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will name the two police officials who are still “playing with illegal drugs.” According to Senator Bong Go, “hintayin po natin ang resulta ng imbestigasyon ng (Department of the Interior and Local Government) at (Department of Justice).” “Managot (ang) dapat managot,” he said. The President had said in a speech during the Valdai forum in Russia that two police generals were still engaged in illegal drug activities. He made the remark […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, Oct. 5, said two colonels, and not generals, were still engaged in illegal drug activities. The President made the correction of his earlier statement upon his arrival in Davao from Russia, where he is on official visit. Days before, Duterte said two generals were “still playing” with illegal drugs. “Wala, walang generals [involved]. I’m sure of that. Sa aking report na dumating sa akin, wala. Parang– colonel I think,” […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte criticized what he termed as “so-called friends” of the Philippines but judge his government’s war on drugs with “preconceived notions.” “Some so-called friends act like they know the answers to our problems and impervious to our socio-economic and political conditions. They create rules and norms for almost everyone, and some refuse to be bound by the same,” he said during his speech at the plenary session of forum […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Friday, Oct. 4, said he believes his name was dragged in the ninja cops controversy because of politics. “I am retiring. Who’s the next PNP chief here?” he asked in an interview over CNN Philippines. Albayalde said this could also be a way to discredit whomever he will endorse as the next top policeman. Albayalde is slated to retire in November. “They will destroy my reputation, my […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Oct. 3, said two generals are “still playing with drugs.” In his speech at the Valdai forum in Russia, the President did not identify the generals nor did he say if they were from the military or the police. The President made the revelation amid issues hounding the Philippine National Police, including its chief Oscar Albayalde. Albayalde has been accused of intervening in the cases filed against 13 policemen […]
(Eagle News)–What have you done as Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief? This was the question posed by PDEA chief director-general Aaron Aquino to former PDEA director-general Dionisio Santiago, who had urged him to resign over the issue on ninja cops. Aquino particularly asked Santiago what he had done on the problem, which he himself revealed during a Senate committee on finance hearing on the PDEA budget. Aquino had said some law enforcers were also engaged […]
(Eagle News)–“You dropped the ball big time.” This was the stinging rebuke made on Thursday, Oct. 3, by Senator Richard Gordon to Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde, who is in hot water over what has been described as an irregular drug raid conducted by his men in Pampanga in 2013. Gordon lashed out at Albayalde during the hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law after the then-provincial director of Pampanga said there was […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday, Oct. 3, asked the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police to look for the foreign national the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group believes was arrested by 13 policemen during the 2013 raid in Mexico, Pampanga. Apart from Johnson Lee, Gordon asked the law enforcement agencies to look for Ding Wenkun, whom the CIDG said was presented by the 13 policemen to the media as the one […]
(Eagle News)–The 13 policemen behind the controversial 2013 Pampanga raid have been placed on floating status. Philippine National Police spokesperson Police Brigadier General Bernard Banac said those with no assignment were: -P/Supt. Rodney Raymundo Louie Baloyo – P/SInsp. Joven De Guzman Jr. – SPO1 Jules Lacap Maniago – SPO1 Donald Castro Roque – SPO1 Ronald Bayas Santos – SPO1 Rommel Munoz Vital – SPO1 Alcindor Mangiduyos Tinio – SPO1 Dante Mercado Dizon – SPO1 Eligio […]
