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Agusan guv opens drug reform center Volume VI, No. 073
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August 23, 2016
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur— Making good to his promise to help dependents of prohibited drugs in the province reform their lives, Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza formally inaugurated on Sunday evening the Outpatient Drop-In Center (ODIC) at the provincial capitol here. Ahead of the launch of homely new ODIC building were 14 patients which Plaza now prefers to call “Substance Abuse Disorder” (SAD) victims who already underwent the initial treatment sessions of the 12-steps See opens, page A6
Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza is surprised here by ODIC staff with a birthday cake on his 54th birthday which he celebrated with the inauguration of the center. Photo by Noel Barrete
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Duterte threatens breakup with UN
DAVAO City--President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to leave the United Nations (UN) amid its criticisms on the current administration’s campaign against illegal drugs that allegedly shot up the cases of extrajudicial killings. He told an early morning press conference at the Malacañang of the South at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) 11 in Panacan that he might just decide to part ways with the UN and invite China and African countries to form a new organization. “So the next time you issue it, I do not want to insult you. But maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations,” Duterte said. He also criticized the international organization for not doing anything to help the country. “So take us out of your organization – you have done nothing here, anyway, also. When were See threatens, page A7
Duterte: ‘Consider Palace clarifies PH is yourself resigned’ not pulling out of UN The Outpatient Drop-In Center (ODIC) at the provincial capitol of Agusan del Sur which helps prohibited drug users reform their lives under Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza’s pet project called “Substance Use Recovery and Enlightenment” program. Photo by Noel Barrete
By Jelly F. Musico of PNA
THE Malacanang clarified on Monday that the Philippines is not separating from the United Nations (UN), saying President Rodrigo Duterte was just basically reiterating the national sovereignty when he threatened to pull the country out of the UN.
“We are not decoupling. I said, it was a statement that he simply stating the fact that the Philippines is a sovereign nation,” Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella explained in a press briefing. In a press conference early Sunday in Davao City, President Duterte See clarifies, page A6
DAVAO City--President Rodrigo Duterte has directed all appointed heads of different government offices to “consider yourself resigned” for allegedly failing to stop corruption. This after he received reports of corruption practiced allegedly from different government offices in his visits to the provinces.
“You know, my mouth is, they say ‘lousy’. But I would like to issue a warning that on Monday, I would declare all positions in the government that were presidential appointments or if you are there because of the presidential appointments, I will declare all your positions all throughout the country vacant,” said Duterte in an
early morning press conference Sunday. Cabinet secretaries are not among the Presidential appointees who would be deemed resigned. Career Executive Service Officers are not considered resigned, too. The posts vacated by the appointed office heads either “appointed by him or
by the previous administration” that will “number in thousands” will be replaced by the deputy or the assistant heads so as not to derail their operations, he said “It will number in thousands, consider yourself in the crucible of the truth about corruption in this country,” he said. See consider, page A7
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