Retards in the Government 224

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https://mb.com.ph/2021/09/11/2-anti-narcotics-cops-killed-in-cabanatuan-city/

Two anti-narcotics operatives of the Philippine National Police (PNP) were killed in a daring assassination perpetrated by motorcycle-riding men in Cabanatuan City on Friday night, Sept. 10. 

Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered a thorough investigation on the killing and assured the relatives of the two slain cops of justice. 

He identified the fatalities as 43-year old Police Staff Sgt. Allan Capinpin and 39-year old Police Staff Sgt. Aries Dichoso. Both were assigned to the Drug Enforcement Unit of the Cabanatuan City Police. 

The two cops were reportedly engaged in a conversation inside the house of Capinpin in Barangay Magsaysay at around 10 p.m. on Friday when the gunmen arrived and repeatedly shot them. They died on the spot.

Two anti-drug cops assassinated inside one of their homes.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1486732/cop-2-others-nabbed-for-illegal-drugs-in-tarlac

Police reports on Saturday said a policeman and his two companions were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Gerona town in Tarlac province Friday night (September 10).

In a statement sent to local media, Police Regional Office 3 director Brigadier General Valeriano De Leon identified the arrested policeman as Police Corporal Geymar Orquero, a resident of Sto. Domingo village in Tarlac City, who is assigned at the Tarlac City police station.

 A cop and two of his cohorts were nabbed for drugs.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1153695

Authorities have confiscated PHP272,000 worth of suspected shabu from a former policeman considered as a high-value individual (HVI) in an operation in Barangay Duera in this town.

 

In an interview Thursday, Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) information officer Maj. Arturo Melchor Jr. identified the suspect as Jasper Joy Mabulay, 30, former police personnel assigned in the National Capital Region.

 

“A search warrant was implemented in the residence of the suspect in Barangay Duera early morning on Thursday when authorities discovered 26 sachets of suspected shabu and a black pouch containing two more sachets of suspected shabu and other drug paraphernalia,” he said.

 

Melchor said the suspect was considered an HVI given the amount of suspected shabu weighing about 30 grams seized from his custody.

A former policeman who was a high value target was busted for drugs.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1488470/implementation-of-kaliwa-dam-project-pushed-through-even-without-permits-coa

The construction of the controversial New Centennial Water Source Kaliwa Dam Project (NCWS KDP) was continued even without permits from the appropriate government offices, according to the 2020 audit report of the Commission on Audit (COA). 

The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) is the government agency in charge of the Kaliwa Dam project, which is part of the New Centennial Water Source program that promises to deliver 600 million liters of water per day to Metro Manila. 

According to COA, this may lead to the cancellation of the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the project (DENR). 

The ECC only allows the MWSS to present measures that will mitigate the impact of the project on community health, welfare, and the environment. 

The MWSS “may only proceed with the project implementation only after it has secured “necessary permits from other pertinent Government agencies,” the COA report said. 

The contractor of the $283.2 project is the China Energy Engineering Corp. (CEEC), which has reportedly started the construction of the dam in spite of complaints from indigenous people who will be displaced. 

According to COA, the MWSS and its contractor must first comply with the requirements of the National Integrated Protected Areas Systems Act and have a certification issued by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples. It must also identify disposal sites of excavated materials, among others. 

“The ECC is a conditional certificate, where MWSS needs to comply [with] 21 conditions and 4 restrictions that are subject to the approval/evaluation of DENR,” the COA report said. 

If the requirements are not met, the COA warned that the ECC could be canceled, which would affect the effectivity of the loan agreement with China Eximbank and the contract with the contractor CEEC.

The Chinese contractor building the Kaliwa Dam did not secure the proper permits but proceeded with the project anyway.