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Duterte asks for mayors' help in drug war</h2>
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President Rodrigo Duterte asked for town and city mayors' help in the government's campaign against illegal drugs during their meeting in Malacañang on Wednesday, Bacoor City Mayor Lani Mercado Revilla said Thursday.</div>
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"Ni-reiterate niya ang tulong na gustong hingin sa mga mayor sa kanyang laban sa ipinagbabawal na gamot. He wants us to assist him," Revilla said on Thursday.</div>
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(He reiterated his plea to mayors to help his campaign against illegal drugs.)</div>
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Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said it was the President's prerogative to make the meeting private.</div>
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He added that the meeting was not a "confrontation" and likened it to a "father talking to his children." </div>
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Daanbantayan, Cebu Mayor Vicente Loot, meanwhile, belied reports that Duterte threatened to kill the mayors during the meeting. He said Duterte warned them instead against having links with drug lords.</div>
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“[Sabi niya,] kung may mayor na makasama sa isang drug lord na being operated upon by the police o authorities, they will suffer the same fate as that of the drug lord na tinatrabaho,” Loot said in a phone interview on ANC’s “Top Story.”</div>
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(If there is a mayor who will be linked to a drug lord who is the subject of an operation by police or authorities, they will suffer the same fate as that of the drug lord who is the subject of an operation.)</div>
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Loot, a retired police officer, was earlier tagged by Duterte and self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa in the illegal drug trade.</div>
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Loot said Duterte had a good mood during their meeting, which happened in batches based on regions.</div>
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“Sabi nga niya, ‘I want to talk to you not as a president but as a mayor talking to another mayor,’ and for me, there was nothing really significant or threatening against the mayors,” Loot said.</div>
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Loot added that Duterte asked the mayors to check his "narco list" with the Department of Interior and Local Government to see the magnitude of the illegal drug problem.</div>
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Duterte also told mayors who want to discuss the problem on illegal drugs with him to schedule a meeting with the presidential staff, an invitation which Loot said he immediately took.</div>
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Loot said, after the meeting, he immediately asked Presidential Assistant Bong Go for a meeting with Duterte so he can clarify the allegations against him.</div>
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Duterte asks for mayors' help in drug war President Rodrigo Duterte asked for town and city mayors' help in the government...

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CEBU CITY — Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has challenged his arch rival, former Mayor Michael Rama, to undergo lie detector tests with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He also issued the same challenge to Supt. Romeo Santander who, according to Osmeña, has been rumored to be Rama’s “bagman” in illegal drugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both Santander and Rama were on the list of alleged protectors of illegal drugs exposed by President Rodrigo Duterte last Sunday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I am publicly challenging Mr. Michael Rama to a lie detector test. He said the truth will set him free? Let’s see about that,” said Osmeña in his 11 a.m. Facebook post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Nganong kinahanglanon man na (Why is that necessary?),” was Rama’s reply when sought for comment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But if needed, he added, he would take the test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rama called a press conference in his residence in Barangay Basak San Nicolas on </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday morning to announce that he visited to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) head office on Monday morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said someone whom he refused to name, advised him to appear at the PDEA office to clear his name and ask for evidence that would link him to Cebu drug operations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rama, who refused to identify the person he spoke with at the PDEA office, said PDEA did not have any evidence to show him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Osmeña said on his FB post that after Cebuano drug lord Jeffrey “Jaguar” Diaz was killed in June, Rama alleged that Osmeña had Diaz liquidated “to cover up his dealings with me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“After the President himself named Mr. Rama as a drug protector, they repeated the same thing in his defense. Well, who let Jaguar prosper the six years he was mayor?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Osmeña was referring to the last six years where Rama sat as mayor but failed to stop </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“In the interest of transparency, I am willing to sacrifice my civil liberties and will submit to the test at the same time as him. I challenge Supt. Romeo Santander, Mr. Rama’s alleged bagman who I alluded to in my most recent presscon, to submit to the same  test as well,” said Osmeña’s FB post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Osmeña wanted their test streamed live on the internet and administered by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) or any national agency capable of doing so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“If the President wants to pick the administering agency, that’s fine with me. I have nothing to hide. Do they?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Osmeña said the drug testing would answer questions on who really solicited and accepted money from Diaz or any other drug lords.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“If his (Rama’s) conscience is clear, like mine is, he will not hesitate. The Cebuanos have a right to know. I am returning onAugust 14 and am willing to take the test as soon as I land. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Rama, you said the truth will set you free. I think it’s quite the opposite. Try and prove me wrong. Game ka na ba (Are you game)?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Osmeña and members of his family are now in Texas for his annual medical check up.  They left Cebu on August 4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mayor’s FaceBook post garnered 2,514 likes and 274 shares as of noon on Tuesday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merlo Louie Gulfan asked Osmeña not to stoop down to Rama’s level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Ur the Mayor now and he (Rama) is just an ordinary citizen, although he still beliv he s d Mayor as far as his tapaulin is concern, just ignore him Sir, no one believes him anyway but on the other hand most beliv his inclusion (on Duterte’s list),” Gulfan said in his comment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Osmeña replied to Gulfan’s post and wrote: “if I wanted to stoop down to his level, I would hold  daily prayer rallies outside Rama Compound. This is not stooping down to his level, this is giving the Cebuanos what they deserve: a clear answer once and for all :).”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: <b><a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/804508/cebu-city-mayor-osme%C9%A6a-dares-rama-to-take-lie-detector-tests" target="_blank">INQ</a></b></span>

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