SHOW leadership by example.

Thus exhorted MAYOR Benjamin Lim that barangay officials set the example by submitting themselves to a drug test to demonstrate that they are not into drugs themselves.

Lim made the statement following the arrest of two barangay officials who were caught by members of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team of the police in the act buying suspected shabu from the Muslim area in Tondaligan.

The mayor was dismayed by the arrests of Alfonso Legaspi, 46, barangay treasurer of Bonuan Gueset, and Carlos Sayson, 47, kagawad of Barangay IV at the corner of Tondaligan road and Ayusip road in Bonuan Gueset last March10.

Lim said he was disappointed when he heard that the two were arrested, saying that the two should have served as the models of good citizenry in their respective barangays.

Police said the two were found negotiating with two unidentified male drug pushers to buy shabu when police chanced upon them.

The two unidentified drug pushers, however, managed to elude the pursuing police.

Recovered from Legaspi and Sayson were two small plastic sachets containing suspected shabu weighing more or less .01 gram and 0.7 gram, respectively.

Police said this was not the first time that the two barangay officials were involved in the illegal drugs as proven by police records.

The two barangay officials are now out on P200,000 bail each.

Lim said he would request the Sanggunian Panlungsod to pass a resolution mandating the barangay officials to undergo drug tests.

Lim said he and the other elected city officials of the city will submit to a drug test to set the example among all officials in the city. He recalled that city policemen also underwent drug testing in the past.

Lim challenged barangays officials to prove themselves to the people that they are not using illegal drugs by voluntarily submitting themselves to drug test.–AQL

Fund probe

Meanwhile, Mayor Lim had written Bonuan Gueset Brgy. Captain Rico Mejia last March 16 requesting for his report after receiving complaints that some amount of barangay funds allegedly remains unaccounted up to the present.

Lim requested Mejia to look into the alleged unaccounted fund implicating barangay treasurer Bong Legaspi who reportedly defrauded the barangay collections and fees.

“I trust your judgment on the selection of the appointed officials and be reminded on our sworn duty to uphold the public interest at all times and practice the time-honored principle that “public office is a public trust,” Lim said as he ordered Mejia to immediately submit his report at the Mayor’s Office.

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