READ: Suffer same fate as drug lords, Duterte warns mayors

<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div> <h2> Duterte asks for mayors' help in drug war</h2> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeF77pbRIzRkI_CpuKWel2OXJU21i1FevhKAYK56VChHJg14k-EDFOhNQF-H9xHnIzb0dEkXfZAbNfn6RpQ4ZU83ilwMiU_pjkVwUtxEGhboMjwtJNKBDYGZy3mIgmGFm6TM4kmpRv3Z0/s1600/Screenshot_94.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeF77pbRIzRkI_CpuKWel2OXJU21i1FevhKAYK56VChHJg14k-EDFOhNQF-H9xHnIzb0dEkXfZAbNfn6RpQ4ZU83ilwMiU_pjkVwUtxEGhboMjwtJNKBDYGZy3mIgmGFm6TM4kmpRv3Z0/s1600/Screenshot_94.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeF77pbRIzRkI_CpuKWel2OXJU21i1FevhKAYK56VChHJg14k-EDFOhNQF-H9xHnIzb0dEkXfZAbNfn6RpQ4ZU83ilwMiU_pjkVwUtxEGhboMjwtJNKBDYGZy3mIgmGFm6TM4kmpRv3Z0/s1600/Screenshot_94.png" /></a></div> <br /> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> 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> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> "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> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> (He reiterated his plea to mayors to help his campaign against illegal drugs.)</div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said it was the President's prerogative to make the meeting private.</div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> He added that the meeting was not a "confrontation" and likened it to a "father talking to his children." </div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> 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> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> “[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> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> (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> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> Loot, a retired police officer, was earlier tagged by Duterte and self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa in the illegal drug trade.</div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> Loot said Duterte had a good mood during their meeting, which happened in batches based on regions.</div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> “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> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> 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> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> 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> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> 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> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> SOURCE: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/12/17/suffer-same-fate-as-drug-lords-duterte-warns-mayors">ABS-CBN</a></div>

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Suspected 'narco-vice mayor' on Duterte list arrested

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilmKdL_oLaxJ6RNozAzBJOSTj3zXQvtuKP0fxOEwOTe3617G6LnhSqGig4nL8ZXkwv7YmPADlBD5F_VHF7uqO1n98rmb30_vy4vqhp-2JImOymSz4oRRliD-APwDAvFZcVV7hYPsn5iB2/s1600/Screenshot_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilmKdL_oLaxJ6RNozAzBJOSTj3zXQvtuKP0fxOEwOTe3617G6LnhSqGig4nL8ZXkwv7YmPADlBD5F_VHF7uqO1n98rmb30_vy4vqhp-2JImOymSz4oRRliD-APwDAvFZcVV7hYPsn5iB2/s640/Screenshot_4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">COTABATO CITY – Police operatives allegedly arrested suspected "narco-politician" Talitay Vice Mayor Abdulwahab Sabal Thursday afternoon at the Awang Airport in Datu Odin Sinsuat.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to employees and security officers of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) who witnessed the incident, Sabal was at the airport’s arrival area when he was approached by alleged operatives of the Mindanao Anti-Illegal Drugs Group (AIDG).</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking with ABS-CBN News Friday morning, Sabal’s younger brother Morsheed Manibpel, a councilor in Talitay, said his family does not know where the vice mayor is.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They have not been able to speak with him, Manibpel said, and were not told why the vice mayor was taken into custody.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Kami ay nananawagan na saan man yung kapatid namin, sana ilabas ninyo at ipa-contact sa amin para naman malaman namin yung status nila," he said.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">("We are calling on those who took my brother to release him, and let him get in touch with us so we will know how he is.")</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manibpel said that the alleged AIDG operatives gave chase to a companion of the vice mayor, who was in a vehicle at the airport, but he evaded capture.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sabal, the vice mayor of Talitay, Maguindanao, was included in a list of politicians allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade, which was released by President Rodrigo Duterte last month. His brother, Talitay Mayor Montasir Sabal, was also included in the list.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mayor Sabal is currently on Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The siblings earlier appeared before PNP Chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa to clear their name.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mayor and vice mayor were both officers of the Philippine National Police before entering politics. Their two younger brothers are also policemen. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mayor Sabal had admitted that he was involved in the illegal drug trade "long before" he entered politics, but that this was no longer the case.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">READ MORE:</span><a href="http://www.trendingnewsphfile.com/2016/09/pnp-is-on-hunt-against-davao-city-blast.html" target="_blank"> <b>PNP ON HUNT AGAINST DAVAO CITY-BLAST SUSPECTS</b></a></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Source: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/09/16/alleged-narco-vice-mayor-on-duterte-list-arrested" target="_blank">ABS-CBN</a></span></div>

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