It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
President Rodrigo Duterte has fired Office of Civil Defense Deputy Administrator Kristoffer James Purisima, Malacañang said Friday.
In a statement, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque sad Purisima, who holds the rank of assistant secretary, has been “relieved from his post effective immediately due to loss of trust and confidence.”
In OCD, Purisima’s function included managing the consequences of disasters and supervising the office’s central operations, internal affairs and administrative concerns.
He also served as the spokesperson of the Task Force Bangon Marawi.
According to the OCD’s website, the position of the deputy administrator is now occupied by Assistant Secretary Casiano Monilla.
OCD is the defense department agency tasked to consolidate all medicines, medical equipment and supplies and health products donated to the Department of Health that were intended to support the fight against the novel coronavirus.
Sounds like this man is taking the fall for purchasing all the overpriced equipment for the DOH.
Police Staff Sergeant Joe Marc Ebon, 37, was arrested by his superiors at the quarantine control checkpoint in Barangay Velasco, Lemery, Iloilo at around 2:30 p.m. of May 21, 2020.
Policemen seized 69 boxes of Tanduay Rhum (375 ml) from the vehicle.
Police Col. Paul Kenneth Lucas, chief of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO), said that Police Staff Sergeant Jose Digcabo-on Jr. was one of the two people caught in Guimbal town last May 20.
Digcabo-on, who is assigned to the Regional Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit (RPHAU) of Police Regional Office (PRO-6), is the third policeman in Iloilo to have been arrested for this violation.
He was arrested with 47-year-old Leo Faldas who was driving the white van that was stopped for not having a travel pass.
Digcabo-on allegedly tried to intervene and tried to stop his fellow policemen from arresting Faldas and himself.
Because of these men's actions their superiors lost their jobs.
Two junior commanders of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 6 (Western Visayas) were relieved from their assignments after they failed to discipline their subordinates who have violated the liquor ban.
A statement on Saturday said Brig. Gen. Rene Pamuspusan, PRO 6 regional director, relieved Lt. George Caño, 2nd mobile platoon leader of the 2nd Iloilo Provincial Mobile Force Company based in Cabaguhan village, Batad, Iloilo.
He was reassigned to the Regional Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit (RPHAU) at PRO-6 Headquarters.
Caño’s subordinate, Staff Sgt. Joe Marc Ebon, was nabbed along with three civilians sneaking 69 boxes of liquor through a checkpoint in Velasco village, Lemery town on May 21.
Meanwhile, Capt. Victor Bacinilio, supervisor of RPHAU is now detailed at Regional Headquarters Support Unit after his subordinate Staff Sgt. Jose Digcabo-o Jr. also violated the liquor ban.
Digcabo-on was nabbed on May 20, for transporting 60 boxes of liquor.
Pamuspusan has earlier warned police commanders that they will be held accountable for the misdeeds of their personnel.
A “one-strike policy" is being implemented by the PRO-6, which means the immediate relief of commanders who will fail to act on the offense of their subordinates.
Being held accountable for their subordinates is not unfair but a "one-strike policy" certainly is. How are they supposed to "act on the offense of their subordinates" with a one-strike policy in place?
At least 405 local government officials are accused of corruption in the distribution of emergency cash subsidy under the national government’s social amelioration program.
The police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said yesterday the local officials are facing investigation for reportedly having taken advantage of the cash aid program for their own benefit.
The officials allegedly included their relatives and unqualified recipients in the list of beneficiaries, and divided the cash to other poor households not on the list.
This number continues to rise. It will probably rise even higher.
“Honestly, we were more dismayed, more disappointed. It seems there was no effort,” Lacson said in Filipino in an interview with DWIZ when asked about Senate’s opinion if Duque’s leadership was impressive or disappointing.
“That’s what you call hubris,” he added. “Because he wasn’t removed, whatever calls you make or whatever lapses I make, the President still loves me. He won’t remove me. Isn’t that called hubris? Too much self-confidence, your efficiency is affected.”
When the Senate of the Philippines thinks you are filled with hubris you know you are really in a bad spot!
A retired Army soldier was arrested on May 23 for peddling P430,348-worth of suspected shabu, or crystal meth, at Maddarulug village in the Cagayan town of Solana, police said on Monday (May 25).
Ricardo Remegio Jr., 48, was arrested and detained after he handed a plastic bag containing the contraband to a police asset, said Brig. Gen. Angelito Casimiro, Cagayan Valley regional police director.
He's not the first and he certainly won't be the last retired soldier to be caught selling drugs.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead the spokesperson of the Cotabato City government while taking his breakfast at a roadside eatery here Monday morning.
Rolen Balquin, chief of the Cotabato City Public Safety Office, said Aniceto Rasalan, 58, secretary of Cotabato City Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi, was shot while taking his breakfast at the Se Hua Carinderia along Notre Dame Avenue, Cotabato City at past 7 a.m.
“Rasalan was alone when shot dead," Balquin said.
Balquin said Rasalan was shot in the head by two motorcycle-riding men. He was declared dead on arrival at the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center.
Bullets for breakfast!
Malacañang on Monday said the Philippines’ coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) national testing capacity is now 32,000 tests a day.
“This is to clarify that I was referring to our national testing capacity, which is now at 32,000/day, when I earlier mentioned that we have already conducted and surpassed the 30,000 target last May 20,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement.
Turns out this a massive lie.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire clarified to reporters on Monday that the 32,000 testing capacity claimed by Roque only refers to the "estimated maximum capacity" of all licensed labs in the country – not the actual tests done.
This means that all 42 licensed laboratories can conduct an estimated 32,000 tests in total "based on the number of machines, number of HR (human resources), and the operating hours per laboratory."
The number 32,000 is based on an estimate of all labs operating under the best circumstances and its not actual. But there is more from the DOH.
After reaching 11,000 COVID-19 tests a day, the Department of Health (DOH) bared Wednesday that it has observed a “downward trend” in the daily output of accredited testing laboratories since last week due to some operational issues.
For the last two days, the actual COVID-19 tests done by the testing centers has gone down to around 5,000 a day, while some laboratories reporting it did not conduct any test, data from the DOH’s daily Situational Report showed.
According to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, the slowdown is primarily because some laboratories lack sufficient supplies to conduct tests.
“We had a meeting with all our laboratories yesterday because we are seeing a downward trend,” Vergeire said in an online Kapihan sa Manila Bay media forum.
“One of the main issues again is the supplies. Some of our laboratories lack supplies for these past days na kailangan nating i-source out para mabigyan natin sila,” she added.
The labs lack supplies and the number of tests has decreased! So how can Roque claim its 32,000 per day!?
The DOH finally justified their bad data due to lack of personnel!
The Department of Health (DOH) explained that the “long and tedious” verification process as well as the lack of personnel ensuring the accuracy of data were among the reasons for the growing gap between the number of persons who had tested positive for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the reported confirmed cases.
And as it is, Vergeire said the country did not have enough disease surveillance officers (DSOs) assigned to various tasks such as monitoring cases, encoding a patient’s case investigation form (CIF) and uploading it into their information system.
In a number of cases, she noted that DSOs have to individually call up patients, hospitals or testing laboratories especially when the CIFs sent to them were incomplete.
“While our DSOs make sure that the data they input in our information system is correct, they are also on the lookout for the possibility of duplications,” she said.
Why should we believe anything the government is telling us?
(This is my personal opinion, but like I said, I only have one vote. If I may, I would open up my friend’s experience with ABS-CBN. I have a friend who was previously allegedly tagged as a drug lord. In a hearing, ABS-CBN reported that Paolo Duterte was a drug lord.)
Davila, for her part, clarified that “no anchor or journalist would ever name any authority as a drug lord and calling it a fact because that would be extremely libelous.”
“It will be of course ABS-CBN who will be checking into these allegations by looking through the files, looking at all the stories done,” Davila said.
This guy wants to investigate ABS-CBN because they covered the news story where Paolo Duterte was acted of being a drug lord. Bias all around when it comes to the situation with ABS-CBN.
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