Edge10 issue 200 January 10,2017

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VOL. 10 ISSUE 200 • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2018

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PROMOTED. Davao City acting Vice Mayor Bernard Al-ag presides over the City Council’s first regular session of 2018 at the session hall of Sangguniang Panlungsod on Tuesday. Al-ag is set to succeed Paolo Duterte as the city’s vice mayor after the latter resigned on December 25 last year. Lean Daval Jr.

UNEXPECTED

Al-ag says it must be his destiny to be vice-mayor BY JIMMY K. LAKING

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cting Vice Mayor Bernard Alag conceded on Tuesday that his assumption to his new post as No. 2 Davao City official was totally unexpected it practically never crossed his mind. “I never expected this,” he told the Pulong-pulong ni Pulong. “But after praying with my family, I now have the con�idence (to assume the mantle of responsibility).” Al-ag said his �irst reaction when Vice-Mayor Paulo Duterte resigned on Dec. 25 was one of shock.

“And when I saw the Vice-Mayor in tears, I realized he was resigning for real,” he said. Al-ag, the majority �loor leader who is on his third term as city councilor, assumed the post as vice-mayor for having the highest percentage from electoral votes acquired.

He clari�ied he is still acting vice-mayor until after the Department of Local

UNEXPECTED,P10

BFP men‘liable’for NCCC fire named By ARMANDO B. FENQUITO JR.

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The kids finally came home

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he Inter-Agency Anti-Arson Task Force has identi�ied some personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection in Davao City who are considered “liable” for the NCCC Mall �ire that took 38 lives. We already identi�ied the personnel but we cannot reveal their names yet pending the completion of documents we requested from different of�ices, IATF

spokesperson Jerome Candido bared. Candido said among those found liable are retired BFP personnel. “Hindi po ako makabigay kung ano ang speci�ic charges kontra kanila (I cannot also give yet the speci�ic charges against them),” he said. He said the investigating team is now back-tracking the records of the Davao

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