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Volume III, No. 215
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Monday
‘P-Noy is dismayed with Cagayan de Oro’ I happened to talk with the Executive Secretary PAQUITO OCHOA together with my lawyer REYNALDO BAGATSING of Metro Manila at
around 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon, more or less at Aloha Hotel, Manila coffee shop on February 16, 2015. At the onset of our conversation I conveyed to
him (PAQUITO OCHOA) as to the numerous cases filed against the executive of CDO and his cohorts before the Office of the Ombudsman for Mindanao,
as follows, to wit:WILLIAM G. GUIALANI -versus- OSCAR S. MORENO, BEDA JOY B. ELOT, PERCY G. SALAZAR, GLENN C. BAEZ & ROY RAA-
March 2, 2015 GAS FOR:TECHNICAL MALVERSATION filed last December 29, 2014; ANTONIO M. NUNEZversus-OSCAR S. MORENO, ELMER N. WABE, PATRICK U. GABUTINA, ELSIE P. LOPOY, ATTY. IMELDA MARIE B. BEL-
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TRAN, ENG. ROLANDO M. PACURIBOT, DIVINA B. BADE, ATTY. CANCIO NICANOR N. GUIBONE, EQUIPRINT CORPORATION & EARTH TOOLS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONFOR: Willful See PNOY, page A11
DavNor Lumads cancel plan to return home as paramilitary attacks renew (Paid Advertorial)
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA DavaoToday.com
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AVAO CITY – Manobo Lumads from interior Davao del Norte villages and who sought safety here last month cancelled their scheduled return today as report of continued attacks by militiamen reached them. See FULL STORY, page A2
Zambo City blackouts upped to 4 hours daily
Prosecutor calls on arson probers to speed up investigation on fire By GERRY GORIT Correspondent
REGIONAL State Prosecutor Jaime Umpa called on arson investigators to speed up their investigation into the fire that razed the entire Hall of Justice in Cagayan de Oro City on January 30. In an interview, Umpa said the Inter-agency Antiarson task force has yet to submit its findings on the whether the fire was intentional or not. “We need to determine whether it’s arson or accidental,” he said, adding, CORDIAL MEETING. Wahid Tundok (in light blue shirt), commander of the MILF 118TH the fire happened nearly a Base Command meet Police Director Benjamin Magalong (next to him with glasses), month ago. head of the PNP Board of Inquiry looking t=into the Mamasapano incident. Tundok He said: “Why it took
to be interviewed by the PNP Board of Inquiry. MindaNews photo by Froilan ZAMBOANGA CITY--Ro- declined Gallardo tational blackouts in the city have increased from two to four hours daily. Engr. George Ledesma, Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative (Zamcelco) general manager, attributed the longer blackouts to the By CRIS DIAZ conferment of awards to university’s 75th ComExecutive Editor preventive maintenance a Moro leader during the mencement Exercises this shutdown of another coal- CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY commencement exercises week. fired power plant of the -- Residents in this seaport of a Catholic university City Councilor Ramon Steag State Power Inc (SPI) capital have expressed rest- here this month. Tabor, chair of the city counSee blackouts, page A11 lessness over the scheduled The Xavier University, a cil committee on police, fire, Jesuit run university, would and public safety, said that reportedly confer an award his committee has received to Mohagher Iqbal, chair suggestions for the deferof the MILF peace panel, ment of the award. for “contribution to social “The people of Cagayan development” during the See awards, page A11
them so long to come out with the report, almost a month already since the fire happened, but until now there was no result.” The job of the task force is to confirm whether or not it’s arson. Once confirmed, he said he will help in looking after the culprits of the fire that ate up all the judicial documents. He said three witnesses saw two bonnet-wearing persons running away at the back of the Hall of Justice building when the fire broke out around 9 p.m. on January 30. But Umpa had a strong See PROBERS page A11
Defer XU awards for gov’t peace panel, says critics
A Justice on wheels bus was parked at the city hall ground in Cagayan de Oro City to augment the narrow Tourism Hall, where cases and other court transactions are temporarily made after the January 30, 2015 fire that razed the entire Hall of Justice. photo by gerry lee gorit
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