It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
A barangay chairman in Tondo has been ordered by the Manila City Hall to explain why 29 people supposedly from his household were listed as recipients of aid for people affected by the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine.
Barangay 251 Chairman Rene Angat said that his multi-storey home was the residence of relatives, employees at his shop, and some taxi drivers.
“Nagpalista sila ng mga ipamimigay. Isinama [ko] lahat ng mga trabahador ko na may bawat pamilya kasi bawat pamilya entitled naman sa isa (food pack),” Angat said in Chino Gaston's report on "24 Oras".
The Manila City Special Mayor’s Reaction Team said they launched an investigation on Angat after receiving information that he wrote down too many names on the list of people who will receive aid from the local government.
Angat may face charges for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, Code of Conduct for Public Officials, and the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act.
Corruption in the distribution of government aid already? Say it ain't so!
A village chief in this town has apologized after distributing more than 60 rice packs that contained weevils and white worms.
Fortunato dela Cruz of Barangay San Miguel said he was not aware that his supplier had delivered tainted rice.
“I just would like to express my apology to our villagers. We did not intend to give you bags of tainted rice,” Dela Cruz told the Inquirer.
Some residents said they saw lice and molds in the bags, which also had a bad smell.
A rice dealer had also claimed that he was asked by the village’s treasurer to falsify the receipts to conceal the right amount of rice bought from him.
The dealer said the treasurer ordered 60 packs of rice worth P850.
“They wanted me to adjust the price. They asked me to put P2,000 in the receipt for the 60 packs because the barangay had a lot of other expenses,” the dealer said.
But Dela Cruz and the treasurer denied this, saying they have yet to obtain a receipt from the dealer.
This all sounds very suspicious. Certainly needs to be investigated.
In a surprise late night public address Friday, Duterte said Robredo is only doing the right thing when she called for support from private sectors to provide assistance to COVID-19 frontliners.
(That is just right, asking help from your fellow men. Now here it is, I have someone who is a lawyer at the PACC, Commissioner Manuelito Luna, who wants to place Leni under investigation for soliciting. You’re son of a… When I heard this, I told them to fire him.)
“As of this moment he’s no longer connected to the government,” he added.
Bye-bye.
At one point in his speech, Duterte even ridiculed Diokno’s appearance, saying that the former opposition senatorial candidate is buck-toothed and talks like a janitor.
(If you talk you are like, I hope janitors would not get insulted…Diokno is talking like a janitor. You know why you didn’t win in the last elections? Because you have big teeth. The way you talk, half of your jaw is showing.)
So many Filipinos have bad teeth this is like insulting the whole nation.
A police officer has been relieved from his post after a video showing him punching and slapping curfew violators went viral.
Col. Redrico Maranan, Pangasinan police director, relieved S/Sgt. Michael Abauag on Tuesday, two days after the incident.
Capt. Oliver Baniqued, town police chief, was relieved based on the doctrine of command responsibility.
Maranan said investigation showed barangay officials sought police assistance when the suspects, who were caught drinking liquor along a street, resisted arrest.
Abauag reportedly punched the suspects when they were brought at the police station.
Maranan said an inquiry is ongoing to determine if there was failure of leadership on the part of Baniqued.
But will he faces charges of assault? Be let go from the PNP? Or just shuffled around?
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte publicly conveyed Friday her apology over previous statements she made that might have offended her constituents.
In a Facebook post, Belmonte admitted her mistake when she said her critics have no obligation to benefit from her projects.
“First, I sincerely apologize for losing my composure on social media. You are correct that all the projects implemented by the QC government belong to you, as they are funded by your taxes,” Belmonte wrote.
Belmonte also said sorry for distributing health kits contained in bags printed with her campaign cry “Joy Para sa Bayan,” saying it was highly insensitive during the coronavirus disease crisis.
“While it is true that my team used leftover donated bags from the previous campaign and that they were the most readily available bags on the first day of enhanced community quarantine, it is clear that this was highly insensitive given the circumstances. Inaamin ko po na nagkamali ako (I admit I made a mistake),” Belmonte said.
“When I reflect on these actions, I do not recognize the public servant that I aspire to be. The citizens of Quezon City deserve better. I will do better,” Belmonte said.
At least she apologized.
A police major and his companions survived an ambush in Barangay Calsada, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao on Saturday, police said on Sunday.
Colonel Arnold Santiago, Maguindanao provincial director, said Major Esmael Madin, head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Maguindanao field office and two companions were on board a Toyota Revo heading to Cotabato City when a lone gunman opened fire on them at past 12 noon on Saturday.
Responding police personnel, however, pursued the suspect they identified as Abas Madsig alias Basco at 12:55 pm. Basco, however, resisted arrest and allegedly fired at the lawmen, according to Major Julhamin Asdani, who led the operation. The gunman died on the spot when police returned fire. Major Madin and his companions were unharmed.
At least the would-be assassin is now dead.
A former village chief in Abra province, who is the provincial coordinator of Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, was shot dead at 8:15 p.m. on Palm Sunday (April 6), the police said.
Leo Barbosa, 42, of Guimba village in San Juan town, was talking with his cousin, Ford Trinidad, when he left his house to take a telephone call and was shot.
Another ex-LGU official shot dead. This one has connections to Sen. Bato.
A barangay councilor here was arrested by law enforcers on Sunday for allegedly hoarding and selling overpriced alcohol and disinfectant products.
Lt. Col. Vici Anthony Tababa, Digos City OIC police chief, identified the suspect as Gina Lascuña Hayag, 33, a businesswoman and a resident of Sentro Tiguman here.
In a police report, Tababa said the local police, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), and a representative from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) conducted the joint entrapment operation against Hayag for violation of RA 7394, otherwise known as the Consumers Act of the Philippines.
Hayag was caught in the act of selling the products to the poseur-buyer at Luna Extension Street, Barangay Zone-3 here, police said.
The operative seized 11 pieces of 170-ml alcohol, five gallons of liquid hand sanitizer, two gallons of bleach, four pieces of 500-ml powder sanitizer, and other pieces of evidence.
No indication how much she was selling them for.
The Department of Justice will immediately set preliminary investigation into the criminal complaint filed against Sen. Koko Pimentel who breached quarantine protocols amid the state of public health emergency.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told reporters that the department “[has] been waiting for the filing of this complaint.”
“Now that it has been filed, the justice department will immediately schedule the preliminary investigation on such date as may be appropriate, considering the current lockdown in Metro Manila,” Guevarra added.
Earlier Monday, private lawyer Rico Quicho said he filed, through electronic mail, a complaint against Pimentel before the DOJ.
The lawmaker is accused of violating Republic Act 11332 and its implementing rules and other Department of Health guidelines, Quicho added.
RA 11332 is the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act. It punishes “non-cooperation of the person or entities identified as having the notifiable disease, or affected by the health event of public concern.”
Not sure why it takes a private lawyer to file these kind of charges. This is the kind of thing the DOJ should be doing.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he warned the public from the start regarding the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
“At the start, sinabi ko sa inyo, bantay tayo. Talagang yayariin tayo ng COVID na ito. It might not really cripple a country but it will of course cause sadness and fear kung paano tayo makakaraos dito,” Duterte said in his nationally-televised address.
That is not what he said at all.
He said everything was fine and the coronavirus was nothing to be worried about.
A police officer in Cebu City was arrested for robbery-extortion on Tuesday, the anti-scalawag unit of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Wednesday.
In a statement sent to reporters, Integrity Monitoring Enforcement Group (IMEG) chief Col. Ronald Lee identified the suspect as Cpl. Wenefredo Olangayo, who is assigned at the Waterfront Police Station 3 and his cohort Jevy Rea Gelig, a resident of Barangay San Roque Cebu City.
The suspects were arrested upon receiving an air-conditioning unit from complainant Reymart Villarmino in an entrapment operation in Sitio Silangan 2, Barangay Tejero, Cebu City.
Investigation showed that the suspects demanded the air-conditioning unit from Villarmino in exchange for the downgrading of drug charges against his brother Ramel.
The complainant sought the assistance of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 and PNP-IMEG.
The suspects are now under the custody of the PRO 7 and are facing administrative and criminal charges for robbery-extortion.
This man has disgraced himself and lost his job all because he wanted an air conditioner.
As punishment for violating the curfew imposed upon the area, 3 LGBTQ+ people in Pandacaqui, Mexico, Pampanga were ordered to kiss each other and do a sexy dance in front of a minor on Palm Sunday, April 5.
The orders were documented in a Facebook live video from Christopher Bombing Punzalan, the barangay captain of Pandacaqui.
(They made us copy moves from Tiktok but we couldn’t do it because they were laughing at us and we were ashamed. He said if we wanted to go home, we would have to kiss. When we didn’t do it, he told us we had to do 20 push-ups. It was past 10pm.)
“Incidents of humiliation and abuse have been reported since the start of the community quarantine such as putting curfew violators inside dog cages; beating up people with sticks; and most recently, sexually humiliating members of the LGBTQI+ community,” Butch Olano, Amnesty International Philippines executive director, said.
The picture accompanying this article shows several curfew violators stuffed into a cage and the article above is about an incident caught on Facebook live. It seems the officials are overstepping their authority by committing such acts.
This as the Integrity Monitoring Enforcement Group (IMEG) arrested two active cops for alleged illegal activities in separate operations in Metro Manila on Wednesday.
In a press statement, IMEG chief Col. Ronald Lee identified the suspects as Cpt. Josep Pedro Bocalbos, 55, commander of the Paz police community precinct (PCP) in Ermita, Manila and his cohort Joyce Sajines, 47 who were both arrested during an entrapment operation.
The operation stemmed from the complaint of market vendors that they are being asked to shell out a daily 'tara' (grease money) of PHP150 for Bocalbos.
The money being collected by Sajines alias ‘Joy’ is in exchange for the continuous illegal vending of the complainants along the public market in the area in Paco, Manila, the PNP-IMEG found out.
Both suspects are now under custody at the IMEG lock-up facility in Camp Crame pending the filing of criminal charges against them.
The police officer will also be facing administrative charges for grave misconduct.
On the same day, IMEG agents arrested Staff Sgt. Joel Bunagan, who is assigned as an ambulance driver at the PNP Health Service Transport Section in Camp Crame.
“We also caught on the same day another policeman violating the strict 'No Kotong' policy of the PNP leadership, one who is demanding money from police applicants by claiming he can alter the result of their medical records in exchange for big amounts of money,” Lee said.
Bunagan was nabbed in an entrapment operation at a supermarket along Commonwealth Avenue in Fairview, Quezon City after he received PHP100,000 marked money from complainant Alexander Ecle.
“We conducted the sting amid information that the accused was promising some police recruits who have failed the PNP medical examination that they will be able to pay their way into the 205,000-strong police organization,” he added.
Bunagan is detained at the PNP-IMEG jail and is facing both administrative and criminal charges for robbery-extortion.
Two cops arrested on the same day for extortion. One cop was asking P150 from illegal vendors and the other was asking P100,000 to help PNP recruits who failed the medical exam still get onto the force.
[If the COVID-19 problem is not fixed, we have all failed. Don’t rush it. Let me tell you, think of COVID-19 in this situation: It could run for two years.]
[I saw this coming long before. I’ve been following this COVID. I’m the first to place a lockdown because I’ve been following the story.]
[I said I’ve been reading about it from different sources of knowledge — Facebook, everything that I can get my hands on to study the matter because I’m the President. And so it came.]
I hope he has been reading a lot more than Facebook. There has been plenty of information available and Facebook is the last place anyone should be looking for reliable news.
A former vice mayor of Tipo-Tipo town in Basilan was shot dead Tuesday, April 7.
Musiddik Mande was killed by unidentified suspects on his way home at Barangay Sumagdang in Isabela City at 6 pm.
Police said that the former vice mayor sustained gunshot wounds in different parts of his body.
Another former LGU shot dead. Probably my motorcycle assassins.
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