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PDU30 knows what Kapitans do
By Ermin Garcia Jr.
LAST week, Sen. Alan S. Cayetano filed a bill seeking to postpone the barangay elections!
First the bad news.
The Duterte administration is reportedly inclined to support the bill. This means that the corrupt barangay officials who to this day continue to protect the illegal drug trade in their respective barangays will continue to hold sway.
Now the good news. Aware that a big number of barangay kapitans are in fact coddling drug pushers, Sen. Cayetano warned that the PNP will keep a close tab on the corrupt kapitans whom their constituents can report to PDU30s hotline 8888! They are in fact now next on priority targets after mayors and congressmen have been publicly identified as protectors and drug lords.
In Pangasinan, acting-police provincial director P/Sr. Supt. Ronald Lee, already identified 1,074 barangays as drug-affected, meaning there are both pushers and users in the community. And as everyone knows, nothing goes in a barangay without the imprimatur of the kapitan.
As I’ve indicated in the past, to be listed as drug-affected, kapitans of the 1,074 barangays are immediately suspected as protectors or coddlers. We may not be off the mark in this case because, not a few barangay officials have already been summarily executed by drug syndicates for knowing too much about them.
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LIGA FEDERATION ON THE SPOT. Board Member Jinky Zaplan, as the new president of the provincial federation of Liga ng Barangay, said barangay chairmen have already signed a memorandum expressing their support for the campaign.
She told The PUNCH that in her town, Sta. Barbara where her husband, Lito Zaplan, is the mayor, she has ordered all barangay captains to report and monitor the activities of drug personalities. She, however, declined to comment on the big number of drug-affected barangays in Pangasinan since she just officially assumed her position last month.
But offhand, Ms. Zaplan, must be warned that her Liga is in the hot seat. Her organization must do better than sign pledges and making token statements of support because these already lost every value these enjoyed in the past.
The Liga members must know that the Duterte administration is well aware that most kapitans in the country today have been protecting drug trade in their communities. If they didn’t, the drug menace would not have reached crisis proportion today.
And, lest the Liga members forget, we have a President, a mayor for 20 years, that knows too well what goes on in barangays.
If Ms. Zaplan knows what’s best for her and her members, they better act today or face the real possibility of being named and shamed before all Pinoys! For starters, she must account for the 280 barangays in the province that have not convened their Barangay Anti-Drug Advisory Council.
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IT’S NOT ABOUT IMMORALITY. The national brouhaha created by another totally unexpected claims of PDU30 about the life of Sen. Leila De Lima beyond the prying eyes of Pinoys made Pangasinenses listen in awe… and shock. After all, the man in the middle of it all, Ronnie Dayan, is a Pangasinense from Urbiztondo, a fact that most in the province had no clue about whatsoever, except folks in that town, of course!
The issue at hand, as pointed out by PDU30, is not whether the lady senator was immoral as he alleged because that’s clearly her business but whether her personal driver (and paramour?) was her bagman for her links to drug lords inside National Bilibid Prison.
The initial indicators are there. His lifestyle, starting from his two impressive houses in the town, could not have been possibly sourced from his 7-year savings from his driver-bodyguard salary. If he was in the DOJ plantilla, he’d be lucky to be paid P25,000 monthly. And he’s got a family to support.
Sen. De Lima, then as DOJ secretary could possibly earn P160,000 monthly (to include salary and allowances). She has a family to support. How much of it could she spare to support Dayan as her faithful driver-bodyguard-lover? P20,000 a month?
Between Dayan’s legit income as employee of DOJ and extra allowance for his loyalty and claimed TLC, he could possibly save P10,000 monthly for 7 years. Hmm not enough to pay for his two houses estimated conservatively to cost P3 million.
If then DOJ Sec. De Lima could not afford to provide for that much, and faithful Dayan could not possibly save enough, something has to give.
The latest from PDU30 is that Dayan had been receiving money from the Bilibid. This claim could only possibly come from an eyewitness account inside the Bilibid whose inmates are clearly now in complete disarray – it’s now every man for himself! Many have decided to talk to save their skins.
Now that PDU30 already threatened the senator that her once loyal driver can turn state witness against her to tell all about her links with the drug lords, one wonders where Ms. De Lima will end up!!
So it looks like Dayan is not the faithful one after all. But in fairness to the guy, how could he when the most powerful man in the country has the goods on him!
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ROSARIO’S STANDARD OF COMPLIANCE. Binmaley Mayor Sammy Rosario has upped the ante for all mayors in Pangasinan to prove that they are with PDU30 in the war on drugs.
A tough-talking mayor himself, Mr. Rosario did what can be considered as the very least and the minimum course of action to win the war in anyone’s town or city – to require not only all town employees but ALL barangay officials to take the drug test without prior notice! He didn’t require pledges of support because he knew such pledges are worthless.
Henceforth, any mayor that comes forward and say, he or she, is doing all to make his or her town/city drug-free, will now have to prove he/she has completed the Rosario Standard of Compliance.
Take a bow, Mayor!
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DRUG WAR IN THE CITY. In Dagupan City, police chief P/Supt. Neil Miro was kind to give us a brief update on the war on drugs in the city under his watch.
The top 5 drug-affected barangays in the city are: 1. Bonuan Binloc 2. Pantal 3. Malued 4. Carael 5. Caranglaan. Hello Kapitans Pedro Gonzales, Julita Perez, Filipina delos Santos, Luzviminda Velasquez and Teresa Coquia! You are all on Mr. Miro’s crosshairs on orders of Chief PNP Bato!
Last week, the station conducted 7 operations that resulted in the arrest of 19 drug suspects and seizure of 55.43 grams.
On the reported exodus of suspected drug pushers and their families, including those who simply wanted to return to Mindanao, five families (37 persons) already departed for unknown destinations. That leaves the city hosting 1,190 Muslim migrants. For the police to know that number, one gets the feeling that the situation is under control.
Next week, I hope to get an update on the number of drug personalities in the city’s watch list that remain to be accounted for.
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