Mindanao Daily (September 24, 2016)

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MindanaoDAILY THE PURVEYOR OF TRUTH , JUSTICE, AND DEVELOPMENT

Volume VI, No. 098

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Australian doctors perform free cleft lip surgery in Oro By MARK FRANCISCO Section Editor

Ulama lead in supporting Duterte’s anti-drug war

FIFTY-seven patients from as far sa Zamboanga Peninsula and neighboring cities and provinces of Cagayan de Oro benefitted the recently concluded Interplast Surgical Mission for cleft lip and palate by the Australian and New Zealand doctors at JR Borja General Hospital in cooperation with the Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro. Dr. Kevin Ho, Interplast team leader, said seeing the quality of staff and leadership of JR Borja General Hospital and their motivation to learn and to help people especially the less fortunate ones, encouraged the team to embark into a more challenging task - and that is the transferring of See perform, page A5

Duterte rates success of war on drugs PNP hits at ‘about 5’ for now; invites UN, EU 70% in to come and investigate killings but… war against DAVAO CITY -- On a scale of one to 10, President Rodrigo Duterte has rated the success of his war on drugs at “about five” as of September 22 and dared the United Nations and the European Union to come to the Philippines and investigate the alleged extrajudicial killings but warned them to be prepared to be asked by him. (On) a scale of one to ten, we have achieved something like about five but most of the drug ngayon… even here sa Cagayan, if you want drugs, your source of

communication, the critical communication will come from your jails,” Duterte said at the inauguration of the Filinvest Development Corporation’s Misamis Power Plant in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental. He did not elaborate in his speech why he gave it a “five” although last Sunday night he asked for six more months to end criminality and drugs, as he acknowledged he might not meet his campaign promise of “three to six months” because of the enormity of the problem. In the transaction of

illegal drugs in the Philippines, “almost 95 percent,” he claimed, are “cooked inside prisons.” “Puro Chinese, eh kung hindi maghinto itong mga yawa na ito, ibahog ko na sa boiler diha (if we they don’t stop, I will feed them to the boiler),” Duterte said. The audience laughed as he urged them to translate what had had just said in Cebuano. “Sabihin mo nga sa kanila, i-translate mo (Tell them. Translate to them). I have no problem, the See rates, page A5

illegal drugs

MARAWI CITY -- The Ulama National Solidarity Conference of the Philippines (UNSCP) held a prayer rally headed by Former Gov. Aleem Basher D. Manalao on September 22, 2016, with the theme: “Islamic Advocacy for the Eradication of Illegal Drugs in Support to President Duterte’s Total War Against Illegal Drugs,” to mark the beginning of the participation of the respective prominent clerics (Ulama), organizations and individuals in supporting the relentless efforts of government authorities to eradicate the alarming drug menace of in the country. This noble undertaking was joined by various civic organizations and Moro Revolutionary group, the academe and other sectors of society under the

Former Gov. Aleem Basher D. Manalao

auspices of the UNSCP, the convenor and organizer of this prayer rally. “Verily, the unprecedented proliferation of illegal drugs which may have been despicably unacted upon by the previous administration, knowingly or unknowingly, proved to be the principal source of all evils and peril of society like, corruption,

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DAVAO CITY -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) has reached 70 percent of the 1.8 million targeted number of personalities in illegal drugs in the first wave of Oplan Tokhang under the Double Barrel campaign of the police. Chief Superintendent Camilo Cascolan, the chief Directorate for Operations of the PNP, said they have a passing score in terms of hitting the six-month A member of an acrobatic team from Cebu City balances target with already 740,000 a unicycle on a tightrope in a show at Macasandig Gym See hits, page A11

Thursday (September 22, 2016).

photo by mark francisco

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