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www.mindanaodailybalita.com VOL. 2, No. 41
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PIA exec sacked due to Facebook THE Philippine Information Agency (PIA) used the power of facebook to track an errant official which later led to the latter’s dismissal from government service. In a 25-page decision penned by PIA DirectorGeneral Jose A. Fabia and affirmed by the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio “Sonny” B. Coloma Jr., Mr. Maynard E. Valdez, PIA Information Center Manager for Nueva Ecija, was found guilty of gross neglect of duty, gross misconduct, and dishonesty and was dismissed from service. Records show that Valdez discretely went out of town without knowledge and approval of his superiors. Upon spot check by his superiors, it was discovered that Valdez closed the Nueva Ecija Information Center. Valdez’s superiors contacted him through his cellphone as there would be a scheduled meeting SACKED/PAGE 7
A policeman from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) checks the hot items that the team seized from 45-year-old Edna Tago (left photo) during a buy-bust operations in Upper Langcangan in Oroquieta City. Photo supplied
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4 minors freed from nightclub By PAT SAMONTE Regional editor-Caraga and JOEL PORTUGAL Correspondent
BUTUAN City––Responding to a request from a Swiss national, police rescued four minors from a nightclub at Roselie Beach Resort, Barangay San Pedro, Cantilan, Surigao del Sur Monday. In a report, Caraga police information officer Supt. Martin Gamba said Thomas Oliver Kellenberger, head and founder of Philippine Islands Kids International Foundation, Inc. sought police assistance in searching for a young recipient of the foundation and three other companions. Thomas told police that the victims, all residents of barangays Carmen, Bugo, and Puerto in Cagayan de Oro City “were traded to work in (a) nightclub.” The two minors were turned over to Department of Social Welfare and Development in Cantilan town, MINORS/PAGE 7
Cops nab lady in buy-bust Couple found dead By PJ TREMEDAL Correspondent
ORO QUIETA City––A 45-year-old is now languishing in jail after police authorities arrested her for selling illegal drugs to a poseur buyer. Police identified the suspected drug pusher as Edna Tago, who was arrested inside her residence in Upper
Langcangan, Oroquieta City. The arresting team was composed of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) under Paul G. Avila, Misamis Occidental Provincial Police Command under SPO4 Euretes Dugso, and Task Force Panguil under Oroquieta City police director Supt. Benjamin Talpis Jr. The police said Tago was arrested shortly after she
handed to a poseur buyer a P300-worth of “shabu.” The police said Tago yielded 18 other sachets of “shabu” after her arrest. The arresting team also confiscated from the suspect’s possession the P300 marked money bearing serial numbers CU222521, BM112618 and CU232727, and other “shabu” paraphernalias.
with a ‘suicide note’ By BEN D. ARCHE, Regional editor-Davao
DAVAO City––A couple was found lifeless inside their rented room in Sto. Niño in Barangay Matina early evening the other day. Talomo Police Station investigators identified the husband as Ali Villafuerte, 40, a salesman, and wife Eden Cadelena Crisostomo, 22. Police said a certain Mary Rose Crisostomo, Ali’s sister, found the corpses of the couple about eight hours after their death. COUPLE/PAGE 7
Daneco member-consumers link mayor to coop’s controversy CAGAYAN de Oro City––What would have seemed to be the answered prayers for the power consumers of Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative (DANECO) has melted-down partly by some legal wilting against the dominant muscles of a local political bigwig. Consumers alleged that local executive is behind the ousted DANECO executives to shell off the cooperative’s Administra-
tion Office from the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued by the Court of Appeals (CA). However, Rey T. Uy is the mayor of Tagum City. It was also learned that the removed BOD President Dean C. Briz is the current Tagum City Budget Officer. DANECO member-consumers allegedly linked Briz to the city’s executive.
Atty. Conchito J. Oclarit, legal counsel of the Association of Mindanao Rural Electric Cooperatives (AMRECO), expected that, by virtue of the CA’s TRO, state takeover would have included not only DANECO’s Monte-vista control premises but also its administration office. DANECO’s administration office is located in the city proper. Oclarit lamented that police
force has been fielded around the administration premises to close the cooperative against personnel from the state run National Electrification Authority (NEA). NEA would have already taken over DANECO way back then when the former, being a quasicourt, ordered removal of the cooperative’s erring Board of Directors (BOD) and OIC-General Manager (GM), had it not been
because of the Nabunturan Regional Trial Court’s TRO. No less, CA’s TRO has strengthened the NEA decision, according to Oclarit. This is just a minor setback which is however temporary, the AMRECO legal counsel added. Amazing Grace: What seems to be the amazing grace is CA’s TRO for the state intervention LINK/PAGE 7
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