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Ang anak ni Chavit

Published by Ellen on July 25, 2010

Tinanong si Chavit Singson, gubernador ng Ilocos Sur, kung dadalawin ni Gloria Arroyo ang kanyang anak na si Rep. Ronald Singson sa kulungan sa Hongkong at mariing niyang itinanggi.

At bakit hindi? Di ba magkakaibigan silang matalik? Di ba dapat ang magkakabibigan nagdadamayan? Lalo na kailangan ni Arroyo ang kakampi sa Kongreso. Kahit durugista ang kongresman ng unang distrito ng Ilocos Sur, kakampi pa rin niya yan.

Mahaba-haba yata ang bakasyon nina Arroyo sa Hongkong ngayon. Noong isang linggo pa silang umalis kasama ang kanyang asawang si Mike at ang isa nyang anak na congressman, si Dato.

The other war in Mindanao

Published by Ellen on April 14, 2009

Related story in the Inquirer: From Oakwood rebel to anti-drug hero

Since last Monday, the flag at the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency office has been flying at half-staff in honor of Intelligence Officer Pablo June Jala and a confidential agent known only as “Tho”, who were killed in an ambush in Maguindanao earlier that day.

Two of the victims’ companions, Intelligence Officers Brian Babang and Mark Anthony Viray were seriously wounded.

The PDEA team was on its way to serve a warrant of arrest on a certain Piad Buaya Abdula Piad in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao when they were attacked by heavily armed men.

Arroyo’s ‘consuelo de bobo’ to Gonzalez

Published by Ellen on March 24, 2009

Update: PDEA Director General Dionisio Santiago disapproves Marcelino’s leave request due to operational commitments. But Santiago gave him clearance to help in Sulu operation to get back the ICRC hostages from the Abu Sayaff.

See PDEA statement in Comments.

Maj Marcelino, PDEA

When Marine Major Ferdinand Marcelino saw his mother last Saturday upon his arrival from Vienna where he attended an international conference on combatting illegal drugs, she expressed concern over reports that Gloria Arroyo has ordered that he be investigated.

In Mrs. Marcelino’s pure understanding of the way things should be in this world, her son did his job despite odds and pressure, why should he be the one to be investigated?

The order for the investigation of Marcelino, who is detailed with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, was one among the several orders issued by Arroyo based on the recommendation of the three-man fact-finding commission headed by former Supreme Court Justice Carolina Griño-Aquino.

Marcelino dares officials under probe to go on leave

Published by Ellen on March 23, 2009

Marcelino himself goes on leave

Click here for VERA Files story

Marines Maj. Ferdinand Marcelino, head of the Special Enforcement Service of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, yesterday challenged all government officials under investigation to go on leave as a matter of “delicadeza.”

“Kung sa Hapon ito, may mag-harakiri na,” he said.

Marcelino, who exposed the alleged bribery in the Alabang Boys case, said he himself is taking a leave of absence from PDEA after President Arroyo ordered him investigated for “taking into himself the job of prosecutor” by releasing Patrick El Khoury, driver of the vehicle where a drug deal was reportedly consummated.

Arroyo issued the order last week based on the recommendations of a fact-finding board she created to look into the bribery allegations and determine the legality of the conduct of the PDEA operations in September last year that netted the three so-called Alabang Boys.

Ang motibo

Published by Ellen on March 21, 2009

Wala namang duda na inipit si dating police officer Cezar Mancao para gumawa ng bagong affidavit na siyang nilabas ng administrasyong Arroyo noong isang araw.

Ito namang si Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez. Paimbistigahan pa niya ang pag-leak daw ng dokumento. Sino ba naman ang magli-leak niyan. Sinasabi dalawa lang daw ang kopya ng Pebrero 2009 na affidavit ni Mancao (meron din kasing Marso 2007 na affidavit) . Ang isa ay hawak ng abogado ni Mancao sa Amerika na si Arnedo Valera at ang isa ay kay Gonzalez.

Di ba sinabi ni Gonzalez na nakatago sa vault? Sino ba ang may susi sa vault?

Arroyo orders filing of bribery charge vs Resado but also wants Marcelino investigated

Published by Ellen on March 20, 2009

Update: The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency expressed appreciation and gratitude for the partial victory it got on the Alabang Boys case.

PDEA Director General/Senior Undersecretary Dionisio R. Santiago said that the Executive Decision was well-balanced and in the lawful exercise of her authority as the country’s anti-drug czar. “We are happy with the decision and we will abide by the directives issued by the President.’ he said..

Click here for Malacañang press release on Arroyo’s order.

Click here for VERA Files story: Resado faces bribery raps for Alabang Boys resolution

Click here for Inquirer story and here for history of the Alabang Boys case

Gloria Arroyo ordered the filing of bribery charges against State Prosecutor John Resado in connection with the “Alabang Boys” case but also directed that Marine Major Ferdinand Marcelino, head of the Special Enforcement Service of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), be investigated.

In a reversal of the controversial resolution penned by Resado on Dec. 2, 2008 dismissing the complaints against Richard Brodett, Jorge Joseph and Joseph Tecson and ordering their immediate release, Arroyo ordered the filing of criminal charges against the three media has dubbed “Alabang Boys” who were caught in possession of illegal drugs Ecstasy, cocaine, and marijuana in a buy-bust operation conducted by PDEA agents on Sept. 20, 2008.

Sign of the times

Published by Ellen on February 17, 2009

Yesterday, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency acquired 195 new intelligence officers with the graduation of the new batch of cadets at the PDEA Academy.

In his speech before the new graduates, Parañaque Rep.Roilo Golez said they are entering a career of risk, honor, glory and high mission.

“The campaign on illegal drugs is the moral equivalent of war. It’s a tougher war than war against the NPA, the secessionist movement and the Abu Sayyaf. More than 4,000 barangays, 50 per cent of them in the National Capital Region, are effected by the menace of drugs. Seventy-five per cent of major crimes in the NCR are drug related. This is a serious public order problem,” Golez said.

Prosecution flaws bog down fight vs drugs

Published by Ellen on February 15, 2009

by Ibarra C. Mateo and Yvonne T. Chua VERA Files For many years, Chinese national Cai Qing Hai had been on the list of Asia’s…

Binaligtad na

Published by Ellen on February 11, 2009

Pare-pareho ang istilo nitong mga sangkot sa Alabang Boys na kontrobersiya. Kapag naipit binabaligtad ang totoo.

Di ba si John Resado ang prosecutor na nagkaroon ng P1.6 milyon sa araw na pinadismis niya ang kaso laban kina Richard Brodett, Joseph Tecson at Jorge Joseph ay gumawa ng kwento na sinubukan daw siyang suhulan ni Atty. Alvaro Lazaro ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency?

Ngayon ito namang sina Brodett sinabi sa independent (kuno) fact-finding committee na nagi-imbistiga sa napabalitang suhulan ng mga Alabang Boys ng mga prosecutors na hindi raw buy-bust operation ang nangyari noong Sptiembre 2008 nag nahuli sila.

The evils of drug abuse

Published by Ellen on February 8, 2009

Update: Rep. Roilo Golez raises questions on “independent” panel investigating Alabang Boys bribery case.

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I got a letter from a province mate, Restituto Tapacal, about the gang-rape and murder of a high school student which he said, “sent chills and shock to the peace loving people of Antique.”

Tapacal said the victim, a daughter of a prominent family in Antique was riding on a motorcycle with her boyfriend along the road in barangay Dalila early evening when a group of men hit them with a wooden club. “The boyfriend lost consciousness and the men grabbed the girl and brought her to ‘kampo”, an area adjacent to the police headquarters. The men took turns in raping her.”

While they were doing their evil acts, the girl’s cellphone rang. It was the girl’s mother asking where she was. One of the rapists even mocked the mother, telling her of what they were doing to her daughter, Tapacal related.

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