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VOL. XXIII, NO. 34
LOS ANGELES / ORANGE COUNTY / INLAND EMPIRE
September 24 - 30, 2016
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De Lima says Duterte ‘fanatics’ sending her obscene, threatening text messages After her ouster as chair of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights, Senator Leila de Lima delivered a privilege speech during Tuesday’s plenary session, September 20, 2016. (MNS photo)
Duterte to rid of corrupt government agencies DAVAO CITY, Sept. 21 (PNA) – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte said that corrupt government agencies will soon be history. Speaking before a gathering of local officials at the Sulong Pilipinas local governance series held in Lanang on Tuesday, the President issued the pronouncement following his appointment of former police general Jose Jorge Corpuz as chairperson of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), which he said tops the list of government agencies being bled dry by corrupt officials. He said he has tasked Corpuz to conduct a top-tobottom overhaul of the PCSO and weed out scalawags in
the agency found to be engaged in nefarious activities in connivance with other government officials. President Duterte said that with the installation of Corpuz as the new PCSO chief, he’s optimistic that the agency will be brought back on track. “I hope things will improve. But sinabi ko you have to make a study. If I am not satisfied that it can really prevent corruption, I will recommend the abolition of the PCSO,” the President said. He said similar problems have been plaguing the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC). See CORRUPT AGENCIES, page 8
Duterte wants China to return PHL’s right to fish in WPS By Jelly F. Musico
MANILA, Sept. 22 (PNA) – President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he will visit China within the year to ask them to return to the Philippines its fishing rights in the disputed West Philippine Sea (WPS). ”One of the things that I would demand if I go to mainland China is give us back our fishing rights,” Duterte said in his speech during the inauguration of the Filinvest Development Corp. Misamis Power Plant in Misamis Oriental. President Duterte said he has no plan to ignore the UN international arbitral tribunal’s ruling in favor of the Philippines’ arbitration case filed against China’s nine-dash line claim that almost covers the entire South China Sea. ”This piece of paper that we have our award, we do not go out of the four corners of this paper. We cannot go to war. Let’s talk first,” he said. See RIGHT TO FISH, page 12
MANILA, Sept 22 (Mabuhay) – Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday said she has been receiving numerous obscene and threatening text messages, and suspected these came from “Duterte fanatics.” In a press conference, De Lima said she could no longer use one of her personal numbers, which was disclosed during a House inquiry on her alleged links on the illegal drug oper-
See FANATICS, page 8
DE LIMA
IS SCREWING THE NATION
– DUTERTE
That’s what I said to De Lima, ”you better hang yourself’ because it is now already in my hands. They submitted it to me. I’m looking at it. So all the while, because of her propensity for sex, that’s what happened” President Rodrigo Duterte does a fist gesture with a victim of the Davao bombing during a meeting at the Matina Enclaves in Davao City on September 19.(MNS photo)
MANILA, Sept. 22 (PNA) – President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said Senator Leila de Lima cheated the nation after witnesses implicated her in the illegal drug trades at the New Bilibid Prison. “De Lima was not only screwing her driver, she is screwing the nation,” President Duterte said in speeches he delivered in two separate events in Mindanao. In Misamis Oriental where he inaugurated Filinvest Development Corp. Power Plant, President Duterte said De Lima built her name that brought her to the Senate by attacking the alleged extra judicial killings that marred the President illegal drug campaign when he was still mayor of Davao City. ”As Secretary of Justice, she was building a name at my expense so that she will become popular. So what now, look, she was not only screwing her driver, she was screwing the nation,” the President said. De Lima, the President said in his previous speeches, had romantic relationship with her married driver-bodyguard Ronnie Dayang
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ations inside the New Bilbid Prison. “Hindi ko na magamit ang number na ito. Wala nang pumapasok na legitimate texts. Puro na lang pambabastos, pananakot, puro calls, non-stop,” De Lima said. “By the nature of the texts, by the nature of the messages, these could only come from trollers and Duterte fanatics,” the senator said referring
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and later with a Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) employee identified as ‘Warren.” ”That’s what I said to De Lima, ‘you better hang yourself’ because it is now already in my hands. They submitted it to me. I’m looking at it. So all the while, because of her propensity for sex, that’s what happened,” the President said. In Cagayan de Oro where he visited the national police headquarters at Camp 1Lt. Vicente G. Alagar, President Duterte said the accusations against De Lima came out because “it’s true.” See DE LIMA SCREWING, page 12
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