(From left to right, VM Mondarte, Mayor Pulmones, and Mayor Relacion) |
PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Aug. 8 (PNA) – Local
government officials said the Philippine National Police (PNP) should update
and verify the list of drug personalities submitted to President Rodrigo
Duterte.
Mayor Romeo Pulmones and Vice Mayor Ernesto Mondarte
issued the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday named David
Navarro, mayor of this city, as among the drug protectors and persons involved
in illegal drugs in this province.
Pulmones said Navarro was the incumbent mayor of Clarin,
Misamis Occidental and did not serve as mayor although he was a resident of
this city.
Pulmones said Navarro and his family have transferred to
Clarin, Misamis Occidental, after the provincial government led by then Gov.
Aurora Cerilles launched in 2009 an all-out anti-drugs campaign.
Cerilles was supported in the anti-drugs campaign by her
husband, Antonio, who was then the second district congressman in the
anti-drugs campaign. Antonio is now the governor while his wife is the
congresswoman in the second district.
Mondarte said the information needed to be updated as
some names of people involved in the illegal drug trade in this province were
not included in the list the President released on Sunday.
Mayor Eduardo Relacion of the nearby town of Labangan
joined Pulmones and Mondarte in expressing support to the President’s relentless
anti-drugs campaign.
Relacion said former Labangan Mayor Abubakar Abdulkarim
Afdal has left the town in 2010. Afdal’s name is included in the list the
President released on Sunday.
RMA/TPGJR/HIROHITO D. CADION
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