Retards in the Government 207

   It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.

 

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1140361

A former police officer in Floridablanca was arrested in a drug buy-bust on Saturday.

Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon, director of Police Regional Office-3 (Central Luzon), said the operatives of the Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit, Provincial Intelligence Unit, and Drug Enforcement Unit of Floridablanca arrested Renan Manacmul, 43, a former policeman, of Purok 1, Barangay Cabangcalan, Floridablanca.

Seized from the suspect were two .45 cal. pistols, a magazine loaded with three live ammunition, five heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu weighing 20 grams with an estimated value of PHP136,000, and a PHP1,000 marked money.

Another ex-PNP officer busted for drugs.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/377929/councilor-of-brgy-day-as-nabbed-for-illegal-recruitment

An incumbent barangay councilor of Barangay Day-as in Cebu City ended up in jail after he was arrested for illegal recruitment. 

Barangay Councilor Regalado Hisoler Jr. was brought to the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) detention cell on Friday, May 14, after he was served an arrest warrant issued by Judge Maria Lynna Pacamalan Adviento of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 58, in Cebu City, said Police Lieutenant Colonel Randy Caballes, head of the intelligence unit of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) in an interview today, May 15. 

Judge Adviento issued on May 4 the warrant of arrest against Hisoler stemming from a case accusing him of violation of Republic Act 10022 or the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995. 

The arrest warrant was served on Friday, May 14 inside the Day-as Barangay Hall. 

The case against Hisoler was filed last 2018 by four complainants, whom he later admitted to be his trainees, said Caballes. 

The four complainants allegedly paid a certain amount for a job abroad to Hisoler’s partner in Manila, who ran a recruitment agency, but they were not sent abroad to work.

Caballes said that Hisoler was just responsible for recruiting the four trainees.

A barangay councilor is accused of recruiting workers who paid big sums but were never sent to work. The case was field in 2018 and he is only now being arrested.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1431976/coa-flags-redundant-consultants-in-ilocos-norte

The Commission on Audit (COA) has questioned the “unnecessary and redundant” hiring of consultants made by the Ilocos Norte government in 2020.

In its April 18 report, state auditors said the province spent P7.492 million to pay 10 consultants who were hired “on contractual basis” and were paid on a monthly compensation ranging from P30,000 to P154,164.40.

According to the COA, such hiring was “unnecessary” government expenditure under Section 4 of COA circular No. 2012-003.

While it recognized the need of the provincial government to hire consultants, especially those who would assist the province in dealing with the pandemic, the COA found out that their “obligations and functions do not equate with their actual work accomplishments or outputs.”

The government of Ilocos Norte hired redundant and unnecessary workers and waster P7.492 million.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1140687

Governor Suharto Mangudadatu has ordered the 45-preventive suspension of this town's vice mayor and five town council members for alleged graft and corrupt practices, a provincial official said Tuesday.

Lorenzo Balo, Sultan Kudarat provincial legal officer, said the suspension order was contained in an administrative order issued by Mangudadatu after the chairpersons of Barangays Kolambog and Dansuli filed charges against Castillo and colleagues for violation of R.A. 3019, otherwise known as the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.

Vice Mayor Lord Dean Castillo of Isulan, Sultan Kudarat was suspended effective Monday along with Municipal Councilors Rene Aristoza, Mariblithe Cartujano-Garingo, Gina Belmes Dael, Ryan M. Dumaran and Clarice Lagdamen.

“The suspension would allow the respondents to air their sides in the proper forum,” Balo said.

The vice-mayor and 5 councillors of Isulan have been suspended over graft charges.  No word on exactly what those charges entail.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1140676

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, has directed the Manila Police District (MPD) to look into the liability of other people who were seen in a street boxing match in the district of Tondo which could become a coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) superspreader event.

In a video posted on social media, Eleazar said the local police must continue their probe to determine charges against participants and viewers of the match because they did not observe health protocols.

Reports said the MPD has already filed charges against Barangay 182 councilor Arnel Saenz and his son Vincent for violating guidelines issued by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases as well as illegal gambling and game-fixing.

Also charged was Lawrence Bindoy, the village secretary's husband. who purportedly collected bets for the match.

A barangay councilor and his son have been arrested for arranging street boxing match. Other reports say that the fight is part of their local fiesta tradition.