The Standard - 2016 July 6 - Wednesday

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VOL. XXX NO. 144 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 WEDNESDAY : JULY 6, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

AFP pounds Sayyaf camp

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DUTERTE NAMES 5 ‘NARCO-GENERALS’ Warns of bloody fight in anti-drug drive By John Paolo Bencito

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday named five police generals that he said were protecting drug lords, relieved three of them and ordered them to report to Philippine National Police chief Director-General Ronald dela Rosa.

RETIRED GEN. MARCELO GARBO

RETIRED GEN. VICENTE LOOT

“I would like to name publicly: Gen. Marcelo Garbo, he is protector of syndicates in the country; [former] Gen. Vicente Loot, a municipal mayor of Cebu; Gen. Bernardo Diaz, former regional director of Region 11; Gen. [Joel] Pagdilao, director of NCRPO (the National Capital Region Police Office); and Gen. [Edgardo] Tinio, former district director of the Quezon City Police District,” Duterte said. The police generals denied Duterte’s accusations, and one of them decried the lack of due process. But Dela Rosa said he would give them the opportunity to clear their names. “I will talk to them and I will listen to their ex- GEN. EDGARDO TINIO planation. Those who are already retired I cannot compel them to talk with me because they are no longer under my jurisdiction. They are no longer under my command,” he said. He also revealed that the three generals who are still in active service—Diaz, Pagdilao and Tinio—were already relieved on July 1. Discarding a prepared speech during the celebration of the 69th anniversary of the Philippine Air Force at Clark Air Base, Pampanga, the President spoke extemporaneously on the worsening drug problem. “I am compelled by my sense of duty to say to all of you those who are involved in the illegal drug trade one way or another that contributed to deterioration of law and order of this country,” he said. “It has deteriorated with advent of drugs because of the corrosive effects of money,” he added. Two of the five police generals that were named are already retiredMarcelo Garbo Jr. and Vicente Loot. Garbo, a former PNP deputy director-general and a graduate from the Philippine Military Academy batch 1981 is a close ally of losing presidential candidate and former Interior secretary Next page GEN. JOEL PAGDILAO

Reds told: Lay down arms and get amnesty

GEN. BERNARDO DIAZ

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said he is willing to issue safe conduct passes and grant political amnesty to four top leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines who are in jail, as long as the rebels lay down their arms and give way to the peace process initiated by the government.

“Good thing that we’re talking to the Communist Party of the Philippines and we hope to have a firm agreement by the end of the year if [Jose Maria Sison] would come home,” Duterte said during the 69th anniversary of the Philippine Air Force at the Clark Air Base in Pampanga. “I am ready to give him safe con-

duct passes, including the Tiamzon couple and [Luis] Jalandoni,” he said. Government peace negotiator Hernani Braganza had earlier said that up to 21 consultants are currently on the list of those being considered to be given safety conduct passes from the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Next page


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