After being criticized for the police’s failure to round up more than 100 suspects in last year's massacre in Ampatuan town, the chief of the Maguindanao police has resigned from his post on Thursday.
In an interview, Senior Superintendent Alex Lineses said he gave up his post to give Maguindanao Governor Esmael "Toto" Mangudadatu a free hand in choosing a new provincial police director.
Lineses, however, stressed that his resignation was in no way an admission of the police’s failure in the Ampatuan massacre case. He added that he was just assigned to a higher post as an intelligence officer of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Police.
"Sabi failure daw ako sa paghuli nung mga [suspects] which I don’t think so. Ginagawa ko naman ang tungkulin ko," (They say I am a failure in catching the suspects which I don't think so. I'm doing my duty), he said.
"I've been an officer for quite sometime already so alam ko naman ang ginagawa ko. I'm on the right track and I'm in the right direction," he added.
Lineses will be replaced by Senior Superintendent Marcelo Pintac, current General Santos City police director.
Alabel, Sarangani (PIO Sarangani/PIA SarGen/13 July) -- Sarangani receives P54,225,000 worth of health facilities from the Department of Health (DOH) through its Center for Health Development (CHD)-SOCSKSARGEN, officials said today.
The assistance from the DOH is in response to the province?s health program to "provide quality health services for the Sarangans". f this fund, P52,740,000 will go to infrastructural development while P1,485,000 is intended for hospital equipment.
"This is for the improvement of our municipal hospitals, health centers, barangay health stations and hospital equipment," Governor Migs Dominguez said. A total of P15,028,000 is intended for hospital infrastructure improvement of Maitum (P3.372-M) and for Malungon (P11,656-M), according to a briefer from DOH-CHD- SOCSKSARGEN,
Maitum is Sarangani's farthest municipality to the West while Malungon is the province?s Northern and only land-locked municipality. In 2007, Maitum won the national Galing Pook award for its maternity home that offers services to adjacent municipalities of Kiamba, Maasim, and Palimbang of Sultan Kudarat province. Sarangani's seven municipalities, with each of their rural health units, have a total fund of P17,082,000 for the improvement of the health centers.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews) – Election and police officials in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao are not keen on granting any exemption to the ban on the carrying of firearms during the upcoming election period reportedly due to volatile security condition in the region.
Lawyer Michael Abas, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Region 12 director, said they will fully implement the total gun ban as provided for under Comelec resolutions 1814 and 8714 to ensure the area’s security in the run-up to the May 10 synchronized national and local elections.
“Definitely we will not be issuing any exemption to any civilian, including the politicians,” Abas told reporters.
He said the full implementation of the Comelec resolution will mainly help law enforcers take full control of the security in the identified areas of immediate concern or hotspots during elections.
Abas said it will also control the movement of alleged private armies or armed bands that are controlled by some politicians in the region and the neighboring areas.
Region 12 covers the provinces of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, North Cotabato and the cities of Koronadal, General Santos, Cotabato, Tacurong and Kidapawan.
Local officials ask CIDG to unmask Maguindanao gunmen
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao, Jan. 7 (PNA) -- Local officials are asking the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group to determine the identities of the gunmen terrorizing villages here and robbing houses and public offices despite the supposedly heavy presence of policemen and soldiers in the surroundings.
“We have been subjected to harrassment by this unidentified gunmen," Mayor Yacub Ampatuan of Raja Buayan but owns a house in Shariff Aguak said.
"People are afraid at night because we see gunmen who are not from here and they are heavily armed," he added.
Public school teachers said students have been telling teachers of the roaming of armed men in “military uniforms” in their villages, mulcting money and food from villagers.
Supt. Alex Lineses, acting Maguindanao police chief, said gunmen twice attempted to scale the 12-foot fence of two residential compounds here that are owned by the Ampatuans.
Ali Macabalang, information chief of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said the ARMM’s acting governor, Ansarudin Adiong, has directed the regional police to look into the reported activities of unidentified gunmen here and in the adjoining towns of Ampatuan and Mamasapano.
MANILA, Philippines - The superfight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. is dead.
It’s not going to happen on March 13. And it may never happen at all.
Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, yesterday said he was informed by the mediator, retired federal judge Daniel Weinstein of Santa Monica, Wednesday in the United States that the fight is off.
It’s the second time in just a couple of weeks that Arum had announced that the fight, which could have generated more than $100 million in revenues, is off. This time, however, he sounded that it’s off for good.
“The fight’s off, Mayweather never wanted it,” Arum told the Los Angeles Times. He said a few days ago that Mayweather’s demand for random blood-testing in the months, weeks and days to the fight is his way out of it.
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