MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 258
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Monday, April 6, 2020
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CIDG confiscates overpriced bananas in Iligan By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
ILIGAN CITY -- After two weeks of surviellance, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) confiscated around two thousand kilos of ripe and unripe ‘lakatan’ in an entrapment operation, Wednesday morning, April Cops load the confiscated ripe bananas to a police mo- 1, inside a warehouse at bile to be donated to the COVID-19 frontliners. (Photo Aguinaldo Street in Bacourtesy : CIDG I ligan ) rangay Palao, here.
Lakatan is a variety of banana. The warehouse was described by the CIDG as ‘big that it can supply hundreds of kilos to the market’. Major William Maisog, officer-in-charge of CIDG Iligan, said the operation was conducted series of complaints were forwarded to their office for overpricing.
Instead of 50 pesos per kilo, those were sold to 90 pesos. Together with the Department the of Trade and Industry, the City Agriculture Office and Iligan City Police Station 5, four were arrested that include the two female owners, a female cashier and a male helper. The green unripe bananas are being locked
inside the warehouse while the ripe ones were donated to the frontliners and check points. The arrested personalities are temporarily detained at the CID G headquarters in Barangay Tipanoy. They are facing cases of violation of Republic Act 10623 or the Price Act and RA 7394 or the Consumer Act of the Philippines.
LTFRB-10 announces ‘Libreng Sakay’ for medical workers CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board Regional Office 10 has announced free rides for medical workers who are the country’s frontliners in the fight against covid-19. In a statement, LTFRB Regional Director Allan
Guro said that buses would be serving places like Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Misamis Oriental every morning and evening. “Five buses are reserved for cagayan de oro and Misamis Oriental route,” the LTFRB-10 chief said. LTFRB said every morning, routes pass through
Initao, Misamis Oriental, and all municipalities to Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) in Cagayan De Oro proper. “At night, buses will wait for medical workers passengers at NMMC to their destinations,” The LTFRB also assigned two buses for Iligan City,
for the operation of the said program. Guro added that the first bus will wait for passengers from 6 to 7 am, and will spell Centennial Park, Dalipuga, SeventhDay Adventist Hospital, Post Office, and City Hall. While the second bus See ANNOUNCES, page 11
CMU makes hand sanitizers, distributes 113 liters to Bukidnon hospitals By IYREN DALIPE-NERI
Health workers can avail of the daily free rides in Cagayan de Oro, Iligan and Misamis Oriental.
MARAMAG -- Due to the increasing demand for disinfectants in the province, a team of faculty researchers from Central Mindanao University has produced 113 liters of hand sanitizers and distributed them to Bukidnon hospitals and government offices. Dr. Melania Enot, director of CMU’s Natural Products Research and D e ve l opm e nt C e nte r (NPRDC), said that the alcohol-based sanitizers were made using the recommended formulation of the World Health Organization. The sanitizers contain 80 percent alcohol,
hydrogen peroxide, double distilled water, and glycerol. As of April 2, the team has distributed sanitizers to the Bukidnon Provincial Medical Center, Bukidnon Provincial Hospital-Maramag, BPH-Manolo Fortich, Impasug-ong Municipal Hospital, some hospitals in Valencia, and CMU Hospital. They also included the Office of the Provincial Governor, Provincial Veterinary Office, Municipal Agriculture Office-Impasugong, San Isidro Parish, Barangay Dologon, and Maramag and Valencia checkpoints. However, as the existing See DISTRIBUTES, page 11