MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 075
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Saturday, November 6, 2021
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Hontiveros: Heads will roll for prosecution in the Pharmally scam R
By CHRIS PANGANIBAN, Executive Editor
OSARIO, Agusan del Sur—Senator Risa Hontiveros believes heads will roll for prosecution in the Senate blue ribbon committee investigation into the alleged anomalies of government’s purchase of pandemic items saying some resource persons in the government have admitted they were already being probed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).
Senator Risa Hontiveros speaks before residents of Rosario town in Agusan del Sur during the Healthy Pinas Mobile Clinic medical outreach she initiated. chris v. panganiban
Another 14,000 MILF fighters set for deactivation starting Nov. 8 By BONG S. SARMIENTO, MindaNews
KORONADAL CITY – Another 14,000 fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will be decommissioned starting Monday, 8 November, 20 months after the deactivation of 12,000 MILF fighters were completed, MindaNews learned Friday. The Independent Decommissioning Body (IDB), which is tasked to oversee the deactivation of MILF fighters and their weapons, has sent out letters to government and MILF
officials invited to grace another milestone in the Bangsamoro peace process. Lt C ol Moham me d Shalleh Ismail, IDB deputy chief of staff, said the Phase 3 decommissioning process of MILF combatants will be held Monday starting 8 a.m. at the Old Provincial Capitol in Barangay Crossing Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. Ismail said that in compliance with the COVID-19 health protocols, the number of individuals who will
See FIGHTERS, page 9
By CHE PALICTE, PNA
functionaries, Davao deputy mayors and volunteers from the business sector,” he said. On Tuesday, Mayor Sara appealed to her supporters to cancel their planned Cotabato to Manila caravan from Nov. 4 to 15. “I am respectfully appealing to the organizers of Sara All Philippines 2022 to forego the planned Cotabato to Manila caravan from November 4 to 15,” Duterte said in her official Facebook account. She also urged them to instead use their money to buy food to feed the
free medical check up and free medicines to residents here at the Barangay Gym. She said some of these resource persons told the Senate blue ribbon commitSee SCAM, page 9
be allowed to enter the venue will be limited. Turkish Ambassador to the Philippines Ahmet Idem Akay, the IDB chairperson, will spearhead the activity, which will include the signing of the wall of commitment for the Phase 3 decommissioning process. Invited to grace Monday’s event are Undersecretary David Diciano, chair of the government peace implementing panel, and Bangsamoro Education Minister Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the MILF peace MILF fighters who were deactivated during Phase 2 in September 2019.
Against her plea, Sara supporters push through with caravan DAVAO CITY – Despite the appeal of Mayor Sara Z. Duterte to her supporters to cancel the planned Nov. 4 - 15 caravan, the Sara All Philippines 2022 convenors pushed through with their scheduled activity. In a Facebook live video Thursday, Barangay 23-C chairman Alimoden Usman, campaign convenor, said they are heading to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to meet with other supporters in the Cotabato area. “Joining us in this travel are barangay officials and
“Posible, posible po yan (it’s very possible)”, Hontiveros said in a brief interview by this reporter in her visit here in Barangay Anoling on Friday to grace the “Healthy Pinas Mobile Clinic” giving
Barangay 23-C chairman Alimoden Usman (left), one of the campaign convenors of Sara All Philippines 2022 (File photo courtesy of Wating Usman Facebook page)
hungry and the poor and the underprivileged. to conduct other activities Duterte reiterated that that would benefit those the caravan was unnecesSee CARAVAN, page 9 who have less in life and
mindanews file photo by bong sarmiento
PHL ETM project to create jobs, hasten withdrawal from coal plants by 10-15 years GLASGOW—An Asian Development Bank (ADB)supported initiative to speed up the transition of the Philippines’ dependence from coal to clean energy sources will generate investments, create jobs, and accelerate the retirement of coal-fired power plants in the country by an average of 10 to 15 years, according to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III. The Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) facility jointly launched here on Nov. 3 by the ADB, the Philippines, and Indonesia
will achieve these goals, according to Secretar y Dominguez, who heads the Philippine delegation to the two-week 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) that started here last Sunday. As a public-private finance vehicle, the ETM aims to both reduce coal-fired power generation through accelerated plant retirement and boost the growth of renewable energy using an equitable, scalable, and market-based approach. See PROJECT, page 9