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Volume VI, No. 040
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July 12, 2016
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Ex-drug addict mayor asks shabu users to change, leave bad vice By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN
BAYUGAN City -- No less than the city mayor himself who have been a drug addict in the past, have called on more than 1,000 shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) dependents here yesterday (June 11) to change their ways and leave behind the illicit vice. “ Can you do it?” goes the challenge of City Mayor Kim Lope Asis before the shabu users and peddlers who trooped to the city gym to turn themselves in and
pledge not to be involved in the illegal drug abuse again. Asis admitted he had been sent to the drug rehabilitation center several times that he had been a headache to his late parents who were long-time mayors of this progressive city but managed to change for good and later took the helms of the leadership inherited from his parents who passed away. “I did not see any good that shabu brings to our See asks, page B3
Filipino high school student commended for research on int’l award for anti-tumor
A lawmaker has congratulated and commended Filipino high school student Mayor Kim Lope Asis stressed in his speech her the ill-effects of illegal drug abuse making himself as an example Arianwen Rollan of Cebu of a victim of such bad vice. CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN City for giving honor to the country through her award from the Qatar Founda-
President vows more support for ARMM By Antonio L. Colina IV
DAVAO CIT Y (MindaNews ) — President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to pour more support in the five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) which has the highest poverty incidence among 16 regions in the country based on the 2015 report of the National Anti-Poverty Commission
(NAPC). During the Mindanao Hariraya Eid’l FItr 206 at the SMX Convention Center here Friday, Duterte said he was saddened to see young Moros suffering from hunger due to poverty. He said ARMM has the highest incidence of hunger “so diyan ako magbuhos ng lahat, tulong, pagkain, pati ‘yung nutrition sa mga bata. Naawa ako sa mga bata”
(so I will pour everything – including nutrition for the children). He said he is embarking on a national feeding program. NAPC’s 2015 data showed that the poverty incidence in the ARMM provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi worsened in the first semester in 2015 rising to 53.4 percent compared 46.9 percent in the same period
in 2012. “This means that one out of two families in ARMM had an income lower than the poverty threshold or the minimum income to meet the basic food and non-food necessities,” it said. Based on report from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), ARMM has a total population of 3,781,387 as of August 1, 2015, with See vows, page B3
tion for her research on the anti-tumor properties of malunggay seeds. In a House Resolution, Rep. Gwendolyn “Gwen” Garcia (3rd District, Cebu) See student, page B3
(From left to right) Marawi City Regional Trial Court (RTC) extension Executive Judge Wenida Papandayan administers the mass oathtaking of Lanao Del Sur and Marawi City newly elected officials, Gov. Badjoria Soraya Adiong, Vice President Leni Robredo and Vice Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr. The celebration also serves as the 57th Araw ng Lanao Del Sur and Eid –el–Fitr. The two officials extend their thanks to all Maranaos for their full support last election. photo by sonny sudaria
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