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The Department of Justice vehemently denied admitting high profile inmate Jaybee Sebastian  into the Witness Protection Program.

This, after Jaybee Sebastian’s lawyer, Atty. Eduardo Arriba, reportedly stated that his client is now under government protection.

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre previously said they don’t believe everything about Sebastian’s testimony even though they agree with his allegation that former justice secretary Leila de Lima was his protector in selling illegal drugs inside the Bilibid.

Last Tuesday, de Lima and Sebastian were among the eight respondents charged with drug trafficking in relation to the Bilibid drugs trade.

Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte called U.S. President Barack Obama, the European Union and United Nations “fools” on Thursday, and warned they would end up humiliated and outsmarted if they accepted an invitation to investigate his war on drugs.

Duterte said he was open to an outside probe by Obama, his Secretary of State John Kerry, the EU and the U.N. Commission on Human Rights into alleged extrajudicial killings, but on the condition that after he was questioned, he had the right to be heard.

“I’ll play with you. I’m very sure they cannot be brighter than me. I will ask five questions that will humiliate you,” Duterte said. “Watch out for that, it will be a spectacle.”

Duterte’s remarks came during a televised speech to hundreds of the country’s business elite, during which he said it was necessary to cleanse the streets of drug pushers and rescue the next generation of Filipinos from the scourge of narcotics.

Duterte, 71, won the hearts of millions of Filipinos with his outrageous, at times comical speeches and man-of-the-people style in the run-up to a May election. He won by a huge margin after campaigning almost entirely on promises to wipe out drugs and crime.
Nearly 2,300 people have died in the war on drugs since the campaign started on June 30, according to police, of which 1,566 were drug suspects killed in police operations.

Police had previously said there had been more then 3,600 deaths, but have since concluded that many of that number were homicides and murders unrelated to illegal narcotics.

Opinion polls for Duterte’s first 90 days in office suggest he remains popular, with a Pulse Asia survey on Wednesday showing he had the trust of 86 percent of 1,200 Filipinos surveyed.

Duterte said on Wednesday he had officially invited a United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions to investigate the drug killings.

Thursday speech was the latest among Duterte’s frequent and furious rebukes of international critics of his drugs war, after they expressed concern about the unusually high death toll and circumstances of the drugs killings.
“These fools think (they can do anything) because the Philippines is a small nation,” he said. “Maybe God gave you the money but we have the brains.”

Sa harap ng sunud-sunod na kaso laban kay Sen. Leila de Lima, nanindigan siyang wala siyang natanggap ni isang kusing mula sa drug money.







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Nakatakdang ilabas ngayong araw ng Department of Justice ang mga bubuo ng prosecution panel sa drug case ni Senator Leila de Lima.








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Iginigiit ni Sen. Richard Gordon na dapat humingi ng tawad ang Commission on Human Rights sa Senado kaugnay sa mga naging pahayag nito sa isinasagawang pagdinig sa mga umanoy kaso ng extrajudicial killings.

Tatanggap na ng mga Drug Dependent simula sa Nobyembre ang pinakamalaking Drug   Rehabilitation facility na kasalukuyan pang itinatayo sa Nueva Ecija.







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Nagtalo sina Sen. Richard Gordon at Sen. Leila de Lima sa senate hearing tungkol sa pagbuhay sa death penalty.









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Sen. GORDON PINAHIYA SI DE LIMA- CHR GASCON DI PINAPORMA SA SENADO! (OCT/13/2016)

"Nahiya ako."

That was how House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez felt after learning about the Barbers-Pichay incident on Wednesday.

Surigao del Norte Rep. Ace Barbers and Surigao del Sur Rep. Prospero Pichay cursed at each other and almost came to blows during a meeting of the House committee on constitutional amendments Wednesday afternoon.

Alvarez said he has no plans of talking to the two congressmen and would rather let the House committee on ethics act on the issue.

Pichay plans to file a complaint against Barbers before the House ethics committee for conduct unbecoming a congressman.
"They're old enough para maintindihan 'yung ginawa nila," said Alvarez.

Alvarez also has no plans to issue a memo to remind the congressmen how they should act.

"Hindi magandang panoorin. Hindi dapat nangyari. Siguro naman aahon tayo pagkatapos. At hindi dapat maulit," Alvarez added.

After learning of the incident, House Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Fariñas immediately requested for a copy of the video.

Fariñas plans to talks to Barbers and Pichay next week. Both are members of the majority bloc.

"I will have to talk to them and ask them what happened. And perhaps if they can have a happy ending about it. Although I read that Congressman Pichay is contemplating of filing a case with the ethics committee. That's his right," said Fariñas.

Like the Speaker, Fariñas felt embarrassed.

"Oo naman. Oo naman. Of course, it reflects on us dahil they're members," he said.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) insisted Wednesday that it has jurisdiction over the drug trafficking case against Senator Leila de Lima, who argued that the complaint should have been filed with the Office of the Ombudsman, and not an agency that she said is headed by a “master of fakery.”

Speaking to radio DZMM, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II pointed out that the DOJ and Ombudsman have “concurrent jurisdiction” or the authority to review a complaint at the same time.

“Ayon po sa mga batas at iba-ibang desisyon ng Supreme Court, concurrent ang jurisdiction ng DOJ at Ombudsman. Kaya po iyan (De Lima’s case) pwedeng dinggin ng DOJ, pwede ring dinggin ng Ombudsman,” he explained.

“Kung ang nag-file ng kaso ay gusto sa DOJ, obligasyon po namin na dinggin ang preliminary investigation niyan.”
[According to our laws and various decisions of the Supreme Court, the jurisdiction of the DOJ and Ombudsman is concurrent. So De Lima's could be tried by the DOJ and also by the Ombudsman... If the petitioner wants to file the case before the DOJ, it is our obligation to conduct preliminary investigation.]

Aguirre also noted that De Lima herself, as Justice secretary of the Aquino administration, also lodged with the DOJ several cases which are cognizable by other courts.

“Noong siya ang Secretary of Justice ganoon din naman ang ginagawa niya. Iyung mga kaso na cognizable by the Sandiganbayan o sinasabi niyang dapat sa Ombudsman ini-file, diyan din po nafa-file sa kanya sa DOJ,” he said, citing as example the raps against Janet Lim Napoles, alleged mastermind of the pork barrel scam.

[When she was still Secretary of Justice, she did the same. The cases cognizable by the Sandiganbayan or those she said should be filed before the Ombudsman, were filed before the DOJ.]

The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) on Tuesday sued De Lima for her alleged involvement in the supposed multi-million peso illegal drug network ran by inmates of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP).

While De Lima said she “welcomes” the filing of the case, she also argued that the proponents were only “wasting time” since the DOJ  will eventually submit it to the Ombudsman for further investigation.

She also suggested that the VACC may have malicious motives for filing the complaint with the DOJ, which she accused of fabricating evidence against her.

“Unless they have other reasons for filing it with the DOJ instead of the Ombudsman. Maybe because that is the domain of Aguirre, the master of fakery. Justice under Aguirre is fake,” De Lima said.





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Pirma na lang ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang kailangan para maipatupad na ang Executive Order on Nationwide Smoking Ban. Para sa ilang health advocates, paraan ito para mas istrikto pang maipatupad ang mga kasalukuyang batas tungo sa 100% smoke-free sa mga pampublikong lugar.  







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Hinahanap na ng mga tauhan ng pnp Anti Illegal Drugs group ang mga pulis na kabilang sa listahan ng Ninja Cops na nag-AWOL matapos ipadala sa Mindanao.

Hindi kinatigan ng Davao City Municipal Trial Court Branch 3 ang hiling ni Edgar Matobato na bawiin ang arrest warrant laban sa kaniya dahil sa kabiguan nitong humarap sa korte noong nakaraang linggo kaugnay ng kasong illegal possesion of firearms.

agdalo Party-list Rep. Alejano: Mga bilanggo, hindi mapagkakatiwalaan; De Lima, inosente

 




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 Dismayado ang ilang mga mambabatas sa naging takbo ng NBP drug trade probe ng House Committee on Justice dahil pawang propaganda lamang anila, na ang layon ay siraan si Senator Leila de Lima.







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Muling nagbabala si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa telecommunication companies sa bansa na ayusin ang kalidad ng serbisyo.









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 President Rodrigo Duterte's trust rating fell by three points, but remained in "excellent" category amid criticisms against his war on drugs, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.

The survey, published by BusinessWorld on Tuesday, showed that Duterte got a +76 public trust rating, down by three points from the last SWS survey conducted last June 24 to 27, before he took his oath as President.

The latest survey, which has 1,200 adult respondents from around the country was conducted from September 24 to 27.

The survey showed that 83 percent of those surveyed have "much trust" on Duterte, 9 percent were undecided and only 8 percent has "little trust" on the President.

The SWS classifies at least +70 net trust rating as "excellent."

Net trust ratings of +50 to +69 are classified as "very "good""; +30 to +49, "good"; +10 to +29, "moderate"; +9 to -9, "neutral"; -10 to -29, "poor"; -30 to -49, "bad"; -50 to -69, "very bad" as well as -70 and below as "execrable."

The SWS said the survey has error margins of ±3 points for national percentages, and ±6% each for Metro Manila, Luzon areas outside the nation's capital, the Visayas and Mindanao.

On the day of the start of the survey, the Philippine National Police reported that a total of 1,216 drugs were killed in police operations since July 1.

The police also reported a total of 18,873 drug suspects arrested and 721,067 drug pushers and users have surrendered during the same period.

Duterte has continued to launch tirades against the United States, European Union and the United Nations for their comments on his war on drugs, which is also being criticized by local groups due to the mounting number of deaths.


Better than Aquino's

The SWS said Duterte's public trust rating was better than his predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, who got a "very good" +67 trust (77% much trust, 10% little trust) rating in a survey conducted from September 4 to 7 in 2010.

Aquino's trust rating following his election victory in May 2010 was +83 (88% much trust, 4% little trust).

'Masa' trusts Duterte

In socioenomic classes, the President garnered the highest trust rating from class D where he got +78.

Duterte's trust rating in class ABC fell by 10 points, but remained at "excellent" level with +72.

His rating in class E dropped by a grade and 12 points to a "very good" +67 from the previous rating of "excellent" +79.

Meanwhile, Duterte's trust rating in Mindanao increased by two points to +92.

He also continues to enjoy an "excellent" trust rating in Visayas with a +73 rating and in Metro Manila with +76.

The SWS, meanwhile, said that Duterte's trust rating in "Balance Luzon" slipped by six points with +69. The President's previous rating in the area was graded "excellent" at +75.


Excellent among age groups

Respondents belonging to the age bracket of 25 to 34 gave Duterte a trust rating of +83 while those in the age bracket of 18 to 24 gave him a +82 trust rating.

Those belonging to the age group of 35 to 44 gave Duterte a +76 rating while those aged at least 55 gave him +73.

The survey also showed that Duterte got an "excellent" trust rating of +84 among college graduates while high school graduates gave him a +82 rating.

The elementary graduates, meanwhile, gave him a +66 rating, down by 8 points from the previous survey. Those who did not graduate gave the President a +66 rating, down from the previous +76 rating.

The House of Representatives will no longer hold hearings on the alleged Bilibid narcotics ring unless Ronnie Dayan, the former driver of Senator Leila de Lima accused of collecting drug money for her 2016 poll campaign, is arrested, a lawmaker said Tuesday.

House committee on justice chairman Reynaldo Umali explained that the four hearings held so far are enough for congressmen to establish the drug trade in the national penitentiary.

"Sabi ni House Majority Leader (Rodolfo Fariñas), na kapag nahuli iyan si Dayan, baka mag-conduct pa ng isang hearing. Pero as of yesterday, sa amin po, tapos na po kami," Umali said.

"Malinaw po na na-establish namin iyung aming hinahanap sa pagdinig, iyung proliferation of the drug syndicate in Bilibid prison. Makikita n'yo po iyung transformation ng inmates na dati hindi naman involved sa drugs ay napalipat dito sa drugs."


(The House Majorty leader said we may conduct one more hearing if Dayan is nabbed. But as of yesterday, we're already done. We have clearly established what we were searching for in the hearing: the proliferation of the drug syndicate in the Bilibid prison. You can see the transformation of inmates who were not involved in drugs but eventually shifted to drugs.)

President Duterte earlier claimed that Dayan is De Lima's "link" to the convicted drug lords who allegedly padded her campaign kitty.

Several high-profile inmates have bolstered the allegation, saying they gave millions of pesos in drug money to De Lima, Dayan and other prison officials.

Lawmakers on Monday cited Dayan in contempt and ordered an arrest warrant for failing to appear at the inquiry.

Umali said his committee will propose the suspension of the anti-wiretapping law for devices used by prisoners in their drug dealings, and the institutionalization of regular lifestyle checks among prison officials.
The House panel will also seek recommendations from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and anti-crime watchdogs, he added.

Driver ni Senator Leila De Lima na si Ronnie Dayan ipapaaresto na kung di pa rin ito susulpot at sa Imbestigasyon sa Kamara tungkol sa kanilang relasyon ni De Lima at mga kalakalan at negosasyon sa New Bilibid Prison NBP.




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Ranking active-duty police officers are the connections of controversial inmate Clarence Dongail, a former Negros police officer serving time for kidnapping, in the operations of so-called "ninja cops" who recycle seized illegal drugs for re-sale in the market.

With Duterte's 100 days in office as the 16th President of the Philippines, Filipinos still have mixed feelings about the new administration. Some lauded the President for focusing on matters which haven't been prioritized during the previous administrations. Many also praised him for the ongoing war on drugs which has yielded more than 700,000 drug users to surrender. But, some notable personalities including politicians can't help but air their sentiments regarding their disappointments.

For one, former President Fidel V. Ramos, described the administration as a 'let-down'. In a column published by Manila Bulletin last Saturday, FVR stated: "In the overall assessment by this writer, we find our Team Philippines losing in the first 100 days of Du30's administration—and losing badly. This is a huge disappointment and let-down to many of us,"

His assessment, according to him, "is based simply on two concepts of primordial importance – LEADERSHIP and TEAMWORK – because that is where the obvious failures have emerged at this point in time."






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President Rodrigo Duterte in August released a "drug matrix," tagging De Lima and several others into the drug trade in the national penitentiary. The President accused De Lima of allowing the trade to flourish during her term as justice secretary.

 He also said De Lima's former driver and alleged lover Ronnie Dayan was the one who collected money from drug lords inside Bilibid.

Convicted crime kingpins told a Congressional investigation last month that they helped raise money to fund De Lima's senatorial campaign this year.

As the House resumed its probe Monday morning, convicted crime lord Jaybee Sebastian also belied De Lima's claim that he was a "government asset."



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