It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
Duterte accused leaders of Metro Manila's water distributors of being “thieves” and said "crazy rich" people should be killed, as he spoke with former rebels in San Isidro, Leyte.
“But Philippines has been gravely fooled by the rich people in the Philippines. Just like Ayala and Pangilinan who own Globe and Smart. They are all thieves, those sons of b******. That’s the whole truth,” the President said in Visayan.
“There are rich people in the Philippines who are crazy. They’re the ones whom we should kill,” Duterte said.
“They are listening now because this is being broadcasted nationwide. Well it’s good for them to hear this. They have violated the rights of people. They are just distributors of water yet they have become millionaires because they overpowered the Filipino. That’s why I am angry at them,” he added.
“Just wait for my go signal. Behind a killing is a leader, especially if his followers are stupid and would just fire whenever they are told to.”
More crazy ad violent ramblings from Duterte. Since he mentions the owners of Globe and Smart as well as the water distributors it is not clear what he means. Does he mean "crazy" rich people, "crazy rich" people, or something else entirely? I like how he calls his followers stupid people who do whatever he tells them.
Over two years after New People’s Army (NPA) rebels successfully raided the police station of Maasin, Iloilo in June 2017, the town’s policemen finally got punished for negligence.
Twenty cops were suspended while their police chief was demoted one rank as recommended by the Regional Internal Affairs Service of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6).
“It took us two years to resolve this matter because we considered all their appeals and the evidences. Now, we have reached a final decision. Their suspension already started,” said Police Brigadier General Rene Pamuspusan, regional police director.
Of the 20 suspended policemen, 13 got 60-day suspension for gross incompetence. Three were suspended for 30 days for simple neglect of duty.
Some started serving their suspension last month, December 2019, while others started theirs on Jan. 1 this year.
NPA rebels raided the Maasin police station on June 18, 2017. Without firing a shot, they effectively immobilized the policemen, took at least 15 firearms, ammunition, handheld radios, police uniforms and even used the police patrol car as getaway vehicle.
They also took the policemen’s personal belongings, including wallets, a laptop, mobile phones, watches and money.
Following the embarrassing raid, the PRO-6 sacked the entire Maasin police force.
After 2 1/2 years of investigating these cops have finally been suspended for gross incompetence when the NPA raided their station.
The National Capital Region Police (NCRPO) on Friday said it will restore its surveillance group dubbed as “red team” who will monitor police officers engaged in illegal activities.
"Ibabalik po namin monitoring namin (We will bring back the monitoring group). Ngayon, may nahuli, baka may mag-attempt na naman, may maglaro (Now that some were already caught playing golf, there could be other policemen who would attempt to play)" NCRPO chief, Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas said in a media briefing.
"I like to encourage the public na pag may nakitang pulis naglalaro, (kunan nyo lang ng picture at) ipadala sa hotlines, siguradong aaksyunan [I like to encourage the public that if you see policemen playing golf, take a picture and send it to our hotlines. We will act on that]," Sinas said.
Aside from golf, Sinas vowed that they will monitor other illegal activities of policemen, such as going to the night clubs.
With all the problems in the PNP why would they even end the monitoring group?
A policewoman assigned at the Davao City satellite office of the Philippine Bomb Data Center (PBDC) was arrested for allegedly selling crystal meth or shabu in Davao City.
Major Milgrace Driz, deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)-XI, told the Inquirer by phone on Saturday, that a certain Senior Master Sergeant Sheila Bande, 43, single, and resident of Victoria Valley, Tigatto in Davao City, was arrested in a buy-bust operation on Friday, January 24.
Driz said the operation was jointly conducted by officers of the Davao City Police Office, CIDG Davao City Field Unit, Sasa Police Station, and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-XI at the suspect’s house.
She said they have conducted surveillance against the suspect for two months prior to the operation.
Cop selling drugs. Nothing new here.
A police officer who was on his way to report back to his assigned unit in Baliguian, Zamboanga del Norte, was shot and killed inside a bus Friday.
Lieutenant Darwin Navarro, officer-in-charge of Baliguian Municipal Police Station, identified the fatality as Master Sergeant Chito Napara Lagahit Jr., a native of Cavite City.
Initial investigation showed that Lagahit boarded an SJG Bus to report back to his duty station.
When the bus reached Sitio Quarry in Barangay Mamawan of Baliguian town around 5:45 p.m., January 24, three unidentified men approached the policeman.
One of the three men, addressed the terrified passengers, mostly students, not to be afraid as their lone target was only Lagahit, one of the 200 policemen from Luzon deployed in the Western Mindanao region.
A very brazen and target killing of a police officer in front of the public.
A policeman fatally shot his wife, who was also a police officer, inside their house in Barangay Centro, Tubigon, Bohol.
Police suspected that Police Staff Sgt. Ariel Tuquib, who is assigned at the Regional Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO 7) in Cebu City, shot his wife first before shooting himself in the face.
The fatality was identified as Police Staff Sgt. Juliet Tuquib, who was assigned at the Clarin Municipal Police Station.
Police Cpl. Christian Noel said that investigation showed that the couple had been arguing before the incident happened.
Cop shoots his wife who is also a cop.
Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.’s insistence that the Kuwaiti employers of domestic helper Jeanelyn Villavende pay with their lives for her death from months-long abuse has reportedly angered Kuwait.
The state-run Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on Sunday quoted an unnamed “official source” from the foreign affairs ministry voicing Kuwait’s “dismay and condemnation” of Locsin’s remarks.
In his latest comment through Twitter on Friday, Locsin said, “All I care about is blood for blood,” while saying the Department of Foreign Affairs will not accept a settlement through the payment of “blood money.”
On the same day, Villavende’s impoverished family based in Norala, South Cotabato, said they have rejected the offer of P59 million to settle the case.
According to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, Villavende’s employer was a ranking government official in Kuwait.
Kuwait reportedly viewed Locsin’s demand of nothing less than the death penalty as “an attempt to influence” the investigation.
“The remark contained an unacceptable transgression against jurisdictions of Kuwaiti security and judicial authorities, the official source said, describing the statement as an unusual approach in dealing with countries,” the KUNA report said.
“It runs counter to the simplest rules of international relations,” the report further quoted the ministry source who “also noted the Filipino secretary’s remark represents an attempt to influence the ongoing investigation.”
The Philippines' top diplomat acts undiplomatically towards Kuwait and angers them. Ironically enough they also accuse him of attempting to influence the investigation!
President Rodrigo Duterte has named Melissa Avanceña Aradanas, the cousin of his partner Honeylet Avanceña, as the new Assistant Secretary of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD).
Duterte signed the appointment paper of Aradanas on Jan. 21, a list of presidential appointees released Tuesday showed.
Aradanas was one of the five commissioners of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) fired by Duterte in 2017, together with agency chair Terry Ridon, due to supposed excessive foreign trips.
She was fired for alleged corruption and then reappointed to the HUDCC but now that bureaucracy has been revamped under the DHSUD.
Authorities arrested over the weekend a village chairman in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
In a report on Monday, Col. James Gulmatico, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (CIDG-BARMM) chief, identified the arrested village executive as Reynaldo Allaga Huesca of Barangay Kauran, Ampatuan town.
“The suspect did not resist arrest,” Gulmatico said, adding the police recovered from Huesca’s residence a shotgun, a .45-caliber pistol, and ammunition.
Another local official busted for illegal firearms.
A police official was shot dead by a still unidentified gunman on Tuesday night, January 28, 2020, along the national highway in Barangay Tapon Norte, San Jose town, Negros Oriental.
The victim is 47-year-old Police Executive Master Sergeant Roldan Esmajer, the Deputy Chief of Police of the town of San Jose.
According to reports from the police, Esmajer succumbed to three gunshot wounds in his upper abdomen, right lateral chest area and right shoulder. He was declared dead in a local hospital 45 minutes after the shooting incident that happened around 7 p.m. in this town which is around 19 kilometers north of Dumaguete City.
Police Colonel Julian Entoma, director of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office, told CDN Digital in an interview that the victim was on his way to the town’s police station riding his motorcycle when he was ambushed.
Entoma said the Esmajer came from a police operation but made a quick trip back to his home in the same town to attend to some personal matters.
While traversing in the national highway on his way back to the police station, he was followed by the two suspects onboard another motorcycle. According to witnesses, the back rider of the tandem following him shot the police official three times.
Deputy Chief of Police killed by motorcycle assassins.
Camarines Sur police director Col. Roderico Roy Jr. said suspect Edgar Pedido was arrested after a search warrant was served in Barangay Del Rosario at around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Confiscated from Pedido were two shotguns, a caliber .45 pistol, two magazines for caliber .45, a caliber .38 revolver, a caliber .25 with inserted magazine loaded with eight live ammunition, a magazine for caliber .25, two airguns, a shotgun butt, 22 live ammunition for 12-gauge shotgun, and 15 live ammunition for caliber .45.
I wonder how many of those guns were homemade.
The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the dismissal of three Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officials for their involvement in the controversial good conduct time allowance (GCTA)-for-sale scheme.
According to documents signed by Ombudsman Samuel Martires on Tuesday, the anti-graft body found probable cause to dismiss SPO2 Ramoncito Roque, who is in charge of the Inmate Documents and Processing Service; Belinda Tudor Bansil, and Veronica Bustamante Buño for allegedly committing grave misconduct and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service.
The Ombudsman gave credence to the testimony of witness Yolanda Camilon, who said during a Senate hearing that the respondents conspired to sell the GCTA for the early release of convicts.
Camilon also testified that they demanded P50,000 from her in exchange for the release of her common-law husband from prison, citing the text messages of Buño to her.
“Bansil and Buño, who have direct contact with the inmates, took advantage of their positions to communicate with Camilon for pecuniary motives… while Roque, who has access to prison records of inmates, including that of Camilon’s husband, also took advantage of his position by representing to Camilon that he can manipulate the computation of her husband’s GCTA,” the Ombudsman stated in its resolution.
That's great but what about the top dogs like ex-BuCor Chief Faeldon?
Motorcycle-riding gunmen wounded in an ambush a village chairperson and her two female companions around noon here Tuesday.
Col. Portia Manalad, city police director, identified the victims as Bai Ella Biruar, village chairperson of Barangay Bagua Mother, and her two companions Princess Odin and Jasmin Samson.
Manalad said the victims were on board a Toyota Fortuner vehicle when tailed and fired upon at close range by four gunmen aboard two motorbikes around 12:30 p.m. in front of the San Roque Chapel in the village.
Another LGU official ambushed by motorcycle assassins.
FIFTY-TWO policemen were arrested in 2019 over their alleged illegal activities, according to the Philippine National Police Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group.
IMEG spokesperson Captain Mae Ann Cunanan said this was 18 percent more than the 44 officers who were arrested in 2018.
The top two regions with the highest number of arrested officers were the National Capital Region with 27 and Central Luzon with five.
The top three crimes committed by these erring officers were robbery-extortion, involvement in illegal drugs and illegal gambling.
Of the 52 arrested in 2019, Cunanan said seven were Police Commissioned Officers. The rest are Police Non-Commissioned Officers.
She attributed the increase in arrests to the growing awareness among police officers of the need to monitor their ranks.
Perhaps more cops will be arrested in 2020 than were arrested in 2019.
"We Should kill crazy rich people" says Duterte, a crazy rich person
ReplyDeleteDuterte accusing others of violating peoples rights. Duterte's hypocrisy knows no bounds.
DeleteSome Filipinos told me that the new mayor of Manila is cleaning the city. Is this what they were talking about?
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b49KgL8FOeY
Watch this super civilized Colonel cop impressing people by smashing random things on his way and swinging a bamboo stick left and right lol. The funny thing is that most Filipinos believe we improve things that way.