It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption and murder in Philippine politics.
PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) Chief Oscar Albayalde said Thursday, September 26, that he has submitted to President Rodrigo Duterte the names of 762 suspected "ninja cops".
It would be up to Duterte to release the names or not, Albayalde said a day after his meeting with the President on Wednesday evening, September 25.
He said the 762 policemen on the list that he submitted to the President were involved in reselling of seized illegal drugs as well as receiving payola from illegal drugs syndicates operating in the country.
He said these cops are now being investigated and monitored by the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG), the anti-scalawag unit of the PNP.
Among the challenges they face, the IMEG said, is that they have to catch these erring cops red handed to ensure a strong case against them.
Last week we started off with 6 ninja cops and then 22, 53, and finally 87. Now there are 762 ninja cops! Duterte would be absolutely insane to release the names on this list if he is really concerned about winning the drug war. Releasing the names would only tip them off!
NCRPO Director Guillermo Eleazar said Friday, September 27, that Castro has a standing arrest warrant issued in 2002 for violation of Republic Act 6425 or the selling, delivery and distribution of illegal drugs.
She also has two other warrants of arrest issued in 2003 and 2011, both for issuing bouncing checks.
This drug queen has an arrest warrant for dealing drugs that is 17 years old! With any other police organisation that would be incredible but the PNP show themselves to be incompetent time and time again.
According to the Laguna Police Provincial Office (LPPO), IO1 Richard Gaufo, PDEA agent assigned at PRO-CAR, and a resident of San Fernando City, Pampanga, was arrested together with Joseph Martin Patrick Alfonso Borjal.
At around 12 noon on Saturday, a joint team from the Laguna intelligence branch and San Pedro City police implemented a search warrant against Borjal at his residence in Barangay Pacita 1. It was also during the police operation that the group chanced upon Gaufo, who used to be assigned in the Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon (Calabarzon) region of the PDEA.
The raid yielded 10 sachets of shabu and several firearms – a Glock 22 Austria caliber 40, a Thompson machine pistol caliber .45, Norinco caliber .45 – and a huge cache of ammunition.
Also confiscated was a fake PDEA identification card issued to Borjal.
A PDEA agent doing drugs with his best bud who just happens to have a fake PDEA ID card and the PDEA just happened to bust them when he was there? Nothing to see here folks! Totally organic.
If you are a policeman in Cebu City and involved in anti-drug operations, wearing any article of clothing with pockets on it will be prohibited.
Cebu City cops who take part in drug busts must also submit themselves to frisking prior to and after each operation.
These two rules have been implemented since Saturday, September 28, on the order of Police Colonel Gemma Cruz Vinluan, the chief of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), to avoid speculations about police officers recycling illegal drugs from buy-bust operations.
Vinluan issued the “no pocket” directive last Friday, September 27, but some adjustment will still have to be made as to how it will be implemented since a memorandum on this directive has still to be drafted.
While the uniform of the policemen include pockets, enforcing the “no pocket policy” during anti-drug operations will not be difficult since cops involve in such operations wear civilian clothings to avoid detection by the suspects.
This means that anti-drug operatives can wear comfortable clothes for as long as these have no pockets, explained Vinluan.
No pockets
. Must be frisked. The PNP are so corrupt that they are being treated like children and criminals
.
Three people, including a barangay (village) councilor, were killed while having a drinking spree in a store along the national highway of Sitio Vilo, Barangay Takepan, Pikit, North Cotabato.
Captain Mautin Pangandigan, Pikit municipal police chief, said former barangay captain now Takepan barangay councilor Andrew C. Lumibao, 53; member of the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team (BPAT) Michael A. Arroyo; and Robert L. Ayona, all residents of Barangay Takepan, were having a drinking spree at a variety store when they were shot by unidentified perpetrators at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday.
The three victims suffered gunshot wounds in different parts of their bodies which caused their deaths.
Police are still pursuing the suspects.
Police are still pursuing the suspects? The
unidentified
perpetrators who's identity they don't know
? Chalk this up to another motorcycle assassination.
Uson has been appointed Deputy Executive Director V of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), according to a new list of presidential appointees sent by Malacañang on Monday, September 30.
Her appointment was signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on September 23, according to the list.
The OWWA is the government agency in charge of helping Filipinos working abroad. They assist in helping overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) adjust to life in another countries and are supposed to be the go-to office for any concerns and issues they have with their foreign employers.
The OWWA is under the Department of Labor and Employment.
While there is supposed to be a one-year ban from appointments to government posts imposed on electoral candidates, the rule does not cover party list nominees. A change to this exemption has been sought by those who believe it gives an unfair advantage to party list nominees. The 1987 Constitution clearly states: "No candidate who has lost in any election shall, within one year after such election, be appointed to any office in the Government or any Government-owned or controlled corporations or in any of their subsidiaries."
It took almost a year but Mocha has returned. How long until she is forced to resign?
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on Sunday joined the celebration of 70 years of Communist rule in China, which is eyeing a "higher level" of coordination with the Philippines.
President Rodrigo Duterte's daughter and Chinese Consul General Li Lin led a program that featured song and dance performances that highlighted both Chinese and Mindanaoan cultures.
"The historic rise of the People's Republic of China since its foundation is one that will be remembered for generations to come," Duterte-Carpio said in a toast.
What exactly are they celebrating? The Great Leap Forward which killed millions? The one child policy which has been disastrous and led to the deaths of many female children? The oppressive social credit system? The destruction of the past for the imposition of a foreign system invented by a Jew in the 19th century?
The government has been spending on 344 reclaimed lands from illegal reclamation activities with zero earnings, with illegal reclaimers reaping financial benefits, according to the latest audit report of the Commission on Audit on the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA).
State auditors noted government expenditures such as travel expenses for monitoring activities on the illegally reclaimed lands which include 292 lands with complete reclamation and with pending applications for titling and 52 lands with cease and desist orders, as well as another 26 detected unauthorized reclamations.
“The illegal reclaimers, however, seem to enjoy all the economic benefits associated with the use and ownership of reclaimed land from the period of reclamation,” the COA report said.
It was stressed that the PRA has not attained the purpose of securing titles for the 292 reclaimed lands despite the lapse of more than 10 years.
10 years and they cannot secure land titles? Why would the government help facilitate illegal activity on these lands? The PNP sells drugs and the PRA allows illegal activity on these reclaimed lands.
A former executive assistant of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor was shot dead by a still unidentified suspect in front of his residence in Quezon City on Saturday afternoon, a police official said.
Maj. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, head of National Capital Region Police Office, identified the victim as Abdulrashid Ladayo Jr., 53, a resident of Barangay Sangandaan, Quezon City.
Based on a report from Quezon City Police District, the incident happened around 3:25 p.m. as Ladayo alighted from his vehicle, a Mitsubishi Pajero with plate number ZDV-159, when an unidentified suspect shot him several times before the gunman rode his motorcycle.
The gunman was followed by two other suspects who served as his backups.
Ladayo was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
Another bureaucrat shot dead by motorcycle assassins.
Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde — then the Regional Director of National Capital Region Police office — had asked then PNP Region 3 Regional Director Aaron Aquino not to implement the dismissal order against 13 police officials who were previously under Albayalde’s supervision in connection with the alleged drug recycling among police officers during a drug bust in 2013.
Former PNP-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Chief and now Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong made the revelation Tuesday while testifying in a Senate probe on the issue. Aquino, now the chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, backed up this version of events.
The 13 police officials were initially ordered dismissed in 2014 due to grave misconduct over the questionable drug buy bust in 2013 but were later deemed demoted in 2017 after filing an appeal in March 2016.
When the 2013 drug bust was conducted, Albayalde was the acting police director of Pampanga.
Albayalde admitted making the call but insisted that he just asked for the status of the dismissal order but insisted he had no intention to influence Aquino.
“Yes, I asked for the status, only the status. I could not possibly influence an RD (regional director) or an upper classman,” he said, referring to Aquino who was a year ahead of him at the Philippine Military Academy.
“Of course, I would ask them because people would also be asking me, the fate of their father, the fate of these policemen, it was because I was the former provincial director. It is but normal that families would ask their former boss for the status of these people,” he added.
“But I never asked for a favor. I was asking for the status that is the very reason why General Aaron here ordered for the review of the case which is i think normal in the process of PNP.”
Two conflicting stories
. One
is that Albyalde asked to have the dismissal
order against his men not be implanted
. The second is that he only asked their status. Two things we know for sure. One the men were only demoted
not dismissed
despite misconduct
charges
in a buy-bust. The second is that Albayalde was in charge at the time and he was suspended for a few months. This man is not clean and he certainly has a whiff off corruption about him but that is par of the course when you are a member of the most corrupt organisation in the Philippines, the PNP.
Authorities are hunting down a Chinese drug lord who evaded arrest in 2013 after allegedly paying policemen ₱50 million.
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Director General Aaron Aquino told a Senate hearing on Wednesday that the suspect, which he identified as Johnson Lee, is in the government's drug watch list.
Philippine National Police Chief General Oscar Albayalde said he will order the police force to look for Lee.
According to the investigation of the PNP's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, under its former head and now Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, Lee was arrested in an anti-drug operation in Mexico town, Pampanga in November 2013, along with cohort Rowel Cabag.
The initial police report, however, said a certain Ding Wenku was nabbed along with Cabag.
[Translation: They allowed Johnson Lee to escape and they got another Chinese suspect. According to our sources, Johnson Lee paid around P50 million for his freedom.]
Police Major Rodney Baloyo, who led the operation, stood by their report and denied taking hold of Lee.
Senator Richard Gordon, however, said this was just one of the lies and inconsistent statements from Baloyo, whom he threatened to cite in contempt and detain in the Pasay City Jail.
We keep learning a lot about this drug raid from 2013. But it's nice that PNP Chief Albayalde who was in charge during this raid, will order his men to look for the drug lord.
A VILLAGE councilor of San Roque, Sumilao town in Bukidnon was arrested in a drug bust Monday, September 30, in Barangay Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City.
Police identified the suspect as 33-year-old John Mark Sabanal, who has been considered a high-value target.
Recovered from the suspect were four transparent sachets of substance believed to be shabu with an estimated market value of P4,000.
Also arrested on same day and in same barangay were Rector Gonzaga, 34, and Acsani Ali, 19.
The suspects allegedly yielded three big sachets of shabu with an estimated value of P65,000.
Police said the two were the source of Sabanal's illegal drugs.
Another LGU official caught with drugs. They caught his suppliers too.
Police arrested here Tuesday a Maguindanao village chief for possession of an unlicensed gun which authorities discovered following a highway mishap.
Lt. Col. Lino Capillan of the Police Regional Office 12, said the vehicle driven by Datu Ayatullah Jainal Mapandala, 39, of Barangay Kiladap in Talitay, Maguindanao figured in a road accident with another vehicle along the national highway in Barangay Dukay.
“Our police noticed he was carrying a black sling bag that was slightly opened and revealed the handgrip of a pistol,” Capillan said.
Another LGU official caught with an unlicensed weapon.
The founder of “ninja” cops or erring police officers is already retired, Metro Manila’s top cop Major General Guillermo Eleazar said Tuesday.
“He’s still a non-officer but a senior police non-commissioned officer,” Eleazar said in an interview on ANC television when pressed for an answer regarding the rank of the founder before he retired.
He said that this cop’s involvement in illegal activities was embedded in the “history of the ninja cops” which started around early 2000s, as shown by information gathered by the Philippine National Police.
Eleazar, however, said he believes that this founder no longer enjoys the protection of his former subordinates.
Eleazar said that no formal charges have been previously filed against this police officer.
Here I was thinking "ninja cops" is just a designation for erring cops who sell drugs. Turns out they are a whole organisation like the mob! Funny how the PNP knows so much about these ninja cops but can't or won't do anything about them.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde speculated on Wednesday that linking him to the controversial “ninja cops” issue is meant to force him to resign or seek early retirement as head of the country’s police force.
“What I see is that’s their end game. I will not fall into that trap,” he said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel when asked if he considers resigning as PNP chief amid allegations being hurled at him.
“I think this is all about that… I think that’s a trap,” he added.
This is what they all say. It's black propaganda. It's lies. It's a trap. Even when the evidence is piled high and deep as it is now against Albayalde.
“As the present chief PNP, I don’t think his credibility is affected. Ibang usapan yung nakaraan. Hindi natin masabi kung may value or what,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
(As the present chief PNP, I don’t think his credibility is affected. What happened in the past is a different story. We can’t say if it has value or what.)
“But if we’re talking about the present situation, wala akong nakikitang masama [I don’t see anything wrong],” the Senate leader added.
“In other words, hindi totoo yung sinasabi na bigla raw after six years nilabas daw lahat yan [It’s not true that all of these were suddenly brought up after six years.] Hindi [No], it was unearthed by the committee because of the connection to the recycling in the NBP,” Sotto said.
Sotto is dead wrong. Albayalde's handling of past cases has a direct bearing on his credibility now. If he assisted in getting "ninja cops" off the hook it is very natural to assume he is doing the same even today. His past behaviour puts the entire drug war into question.
President Rodrigo Duterte had a “sloppy” appearance during his meeting with Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow on Wednesday, a foreign journalist said.
Pavel Vondra, an editor at Czech Radio Plus headquartered in Prague, posted on Twitter on Thursday a photo of Medvedev and Duterte who had a loose necktie and an open collar.
“Rodrigo #Duterte showed up a bit unkempt for the meeting with the Russian PM Medvedev in Moscow and the Russian internet is having a blast: ‘Did he drink all night?’, ‘Did he just leave the pub?’, ‘Do Filipinos know what a (state visit) protocol is?’ people ask,” Vondra said.
Vondra accompanied his post with a screencap of comments on social media supposedly about Duterte’s appearance. The comments were written in Russian.
Malacañang, meanwhile, disputed such observation.
“President Duterte does not look unkempt. What those kibitzers refer to is the way he wore his tie. He loosened it up. He feels suffocated and very uncomfortable if the tie is tightly in place in the collar,” presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said.
Panelo said Duterte is a “very hygienic” person.
“His body emits a refreshing scent as observed by people who meet up close to him,” he said.
The Palace spokesman also said Duterte’s loosened necktie was not intended to disrespect Medvedev or the Russians.
“President Duterte dresses up for comfort, he is not particular on unsettling other people. He is upfront on everything he does,” Panelo said.
The chief executive had said that he dresses to be comfortable and not to impress other people.
Duterte dresses for comfort and he smells real good. That's just wonderful. But that is not how the rest of the world sees it.
Lawyer Ranulfo Cenas, head of the City Environment Management Office (CEMO) survived an attempt on his life Thursday morning, Oct. 3, just outside his office.
Edilberto Don, a CEMO staff, told the Inquirer that Cenas was about to enter the gate of the City Engineering Compound when he heard the cocking of a gun.
When he looked around, Cenas saw a man about to shoot him but the pistol’s magazine dropped.
Cenas immediately ducked and entered the compound where City Mayor Celso Regencia also maintains an office.
Shortly after, he heard a gunshot ring but could not tell where it was directed.
Lucky for him! But they will likely try again probably not in a public spot the time and with a better marksman.
This is totally outrageous. In the civilized world POLICE OFFICERS DON'T KILL PEOPLE.Their job is to protect and serve. and not acting as executioners. The Philippines is very far to be a civilized country. The worst in all this is that Filipinos have voted for this. Duterte promised to eradicate corruption (like if a politician would promise to keep corruption) but most Filipinos really believe this. Cops killing people at home,in public or anywhere else is one of the biggest symbol of corruption a country can possibly have. With such a logic we can use the words 'druglord' and 'pusher' to have anyone killed. Once again, people have voted for this, and the majority of Filipinos support this mess.
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