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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews) ---The New People’s Army (NPA) freed Tuesday Police Officer 3 Ruben Nojapa Jr. in Barangay Mainit, Nabun-turan town in Compostela Valley (ComVal) after 15 days in captivity. Acting Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte fetched Nojapa and brought him toCamp Catitipan here on

NPA frees captive cop in ComVal

board a white helicopter at around 3 p.m. The National Democrat-ic Front (NDF) Southern Mindanao ordered Nojapa’s release last March 24. He was abducted by NPA rebels last March 18 in a checkpoint in Barangay Mainit. Before transported to

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ -- The city council here has expressed support to mounting calls for President Benigno Aqui-no III to use his emergency powers to effectively address the worsening power crisis in Mindanao. The council passed a reso-lution during its regular session on Tuesday “strongly requesting” the President

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CAGAYAN de Oro City- In-cumbent Lugus, Sulu Mayor Al Zhudurie L. Asmadun was accused by the residents of Tingkangan village of the said town of protect-ing armed men after the

to specifically adopt emer-gency measures to expedite the resolution of the con-tinuing power shortage in the critical Mindanao grid. City Councilor Elizabeth Bagonoc, the resolution’s author, said it’s time for the national government to flex its muscles to finally resolve the problem, which has caused prolonged daily rotating brownouts in the area lasting a total of 14 hours. The rotating brownouts, which started in early 2010 and have worsened sincelast year, was mainly blamed on the severe load cuts im-posed by the National Grid Corporation of the Philip-pines (NGCP) as a result of the declining generation capacity of the National Power Corporation’s (Na-pocor) hydroelectric plants.

K I DA PAWA N C I T Y (MindaNews)– The pro-vincial government of North Cotabato is ex-ploring hydro and solar power as alternative en-ergy sources to address the supply shortage in the province in the long term, Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza said Tuesday.

NorthCotabato in talks with investors to put up

hydro, solar power plants

Socoteco eyes acquisition of 15-MW diesel modular gensetGENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews)-- Distribu-tion utility South Cota-bato I Electric Cooperative (Socoteco I) is planning to acquire a 15-megawatt (MW) diesel-fired modular generator set to offset the projected power shortage in the area when its three-year supply contract with the National Power

Currently, the towns of Pikit, Pigcawayan, Alamada, Libungan, Midsayap and Aleosan or known as the P-PALMA Alliance are ex-periencing an average of 10-hour daily power cur-tailment.

The rest of the towns in North Cotabato and this city are also experiencing

daily brownouts lasting an average of seven hours.

Mendoza told Mind-aNews that the provin-cial government has been talking to some investors on the possibility of de-veloping a hydropower plant powered by the Malitubog-Maridagao

Sulu town exec accused of protecting armed men

alleged strafing incident of municipal councilor Julfikli Hassan and his children. Sulu police provincial director SSupt. Antonio Freyra confirms the incident and stating that as of this time they are waiting for the complete police report from Lugus Municipal Po-

lice Station. He said initial investiga-tion reveals that no one was hurt in the alleged politically motivated incident. However, in a separate interview to Councilor Hassan, official said that Tingkangan village

P-Noy urged to use emergency powers

Newly-delivered durian fruits sorted outside magsaysay Park in Davao City on Tuesday, april 2. Durian now sells for P30 to P40 a kilo depending on the variety. MindaNews photo by Ruby Thursday More

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews)-- Acting Mayor Rodrigo Duterte assured Tuesday continued educational assistance for survivors and families of the victims of the Sasa wharf bombing here in 2003 that killed 17 persons and wounded 56 others. Marking the 10th anniversary of the bomb-ing at the blast site, he said the assistance from the city government will continue

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Misor dad prefers June opening of Laguindingan airport

re-electionist Cagayan de oro City Mayor vicente Y. emano gestures as he delivers a message to his supporters at a public rally. emano is leading surveys conducted for the city’s top post, including a survey conducted by an agency of the Xavier uni-versity recently. photo by Gerry l. Gorit

By GerrY lee GoritPhoto-journalist

MISAMIS Oriental provin-cial board member Jimmy Caiña he is not in favor of the proposed April open-ing of the Laguindingan aiport, citing that it is bet-ter for the navigational

communication gear to be in place if and when the airport begins to be fully operational.

Caiña said the needed communication equipment is expected to be functional by June.

“A June opening is bet-ter,” he said in response to

reports that the airport would open by the end of this month April.

He said the navigational gear would ensure clear and safe landing of aircraft even during evening hours as currently in place at the Lumbia airport.

Construction at the Laguindingan airport , where al l f l ights from and to Lumbia wil l be transferred, is about 98% complete.

“The double taxiways are finished,” Caiña said, adding that it’s only the communication equipment that is really lacking.

In another development, Caiña expressed elation over the support shown by voters in the first district of Misamis Oriental for his son Marc who is running for the provincial board in the May elections.

The younger Caiña re- cently undertook pocket rallies in all towns of the province’s first congressio-nal district from Balingasag to Magsaysay.

He said the activity was supported by civic groups

as well as religious orga-nizations.

During the pocket ral-lies, Marc Caiña presented his governance platform as an independent candidate while supporters came in

full force with tarpaulins of the candidate.

The younger Caiña is seen to follow in the foot-steps of his father as the “infrastructure chairman” of the provincial board.

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DAVAO City––On the 10th year commemoration of the Sasa Wharf bombing, acting Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte assured the city’s financial support to the victims’ families, as long as he remains head of

Duterte assures Sasa Wharf blast victims support as long as he’s mayor

By CHerYll d. Fiel of DavaoToday.com

the city.Duterte joined families

in a commemoration of the bombing which killed 17, including children, and injured 56 others ten years ago.

“Wala ko namulitika. Mintras akoy mayor sa Davao, ok mo. Karun, maayo

na lang gani kay ang gi-noo gihimong mayor akong anak, ok na pud mo. Ka-rung moabot nga eleksyon, di nato masulti. Wala koy kontra pero kaning tanan, Inshallah. (I’m not politick-ing here. As long as I’m mayor here of Davao, you’re okay. It is good that God

made my daughter mayor, so you are also okay. Now that elections are near, we cannot say. I may not have opponents, but all of these, I say, Inshallah, meaning God-willing),” he addressed the families.

The city is supporting some 222 families of the

bombing victims spend-ing a total of 3.981 mil-lion pesos in educational assistance to the children of the victims. The mayor said 18 of them have fin-ished college.“Nalipay kog dako bisan tuod wala na moy amahan ug inahan, nakagraduate mo (I’m glad

that even if you no longer have fathers or mothers, you have graduated),” he told them.

Duterte reminded the families that this is not his personal money they are receiving but the city’s. But he assures he will do all in his capacity to support them, “Kay total naa pa ko tulo ka tuig ko. Makasustini pa ko, (I still have three more years, so I can sustain this.)”

Duterte turned somber upon recalling the incident saying, “Kung naay lider nga daghang gasgas sa kasing-kasing, ako, (If there is any leader here with the most scars, that would be me),” pointing out that in his 19 years of being the mayor, he saw through three bombings that rocked the City.

A bomb struck San Pedro Cathedral on December 27, 1993, killing seven people and injuring 151 others, 32 of them seriously. The bombing of the old Davao airport in Sasa which took place a month prior to Sasa wharf bombing on March 4, 2003 killed 20 and injured 146 others.

Duterte allayed fears

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BUTUAN CITY - The Butuan City Water District (BCWD) has updated the local media on its operations and accom-plishments for the year 2012.

BCWD celebrates 39th anniversary, bares ‘accomplishments’

By Jennifer P. Gaitano

This, during a press con-ference highlighting its 39th anniversary celebration, Monday, coinciding with the 12th Water Conscious-ness Week.

BCWD General Manager Anselmo Sangtian bared that while performing daily operations, the BCWD has been active with its corporate social responsibility (CSR) that included the conduct of competitions and school tours for school children.

Outreach programs have also been done, particularly during the 38th anniversary.

“We also constructed the multi-purpose hall of the

Anticala Watershed Farmers Association, with comfort rooms and a water system,’ said Engr. Sangtian.

A forest nursery will soon be put up in the vicinity of the building, he added.

“As our office turns 39 years of providing piped wa-ter supply to the Butuanons, we are also into projects toward raising awareness and increasing cooperation amid the challenges over the increasing demand for water access, allocation and services,” he stated.

Such challenges include the expansion projects to-ward Ubod-Ubod and Basay

Resettlement, Lemon and Malalag;

Upgrading of transmis-sion lines in Sunrise, Am-payon, Tiniwisan and Mahay and Amakan Resettlement;

Deep-well drilling in Taguibo; extension of the Pinamanculan Reservoir; construction of ground res-ervoir in Libertad; Calibra-tion of flow meters;

Procurement of leak de-tector; rehabilitation and re-alignment of water meter stand; and working for a partnership with private sector for treatment services, under the Public-Private-Partnership/Joint venture.

“I am proud that my father is a farmer, be-

cause he planted rice not just for my family but also for other people.”

A statement said by a daughter of a rice farmer, Riza Mae Bete, Grade III pupil from Esperanza Cen-tral SPED School.

The Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Unit XIII started the NYR 2013 Info-Caravan in partnership with the Provincial Agriculture Office of Agusan del Sur. Info-Caravan is a chan-nel that stimulates public awareness and understand-ing. It is an intensified promotional campaign that helps the department in spreading the information and advocacy of NYR 2013.

The Regional Agricul-ture and Fisheries Infor-mation Division (RAFID) with the Rice Program led the first quarter region-wide information caravan delivering the message for NYR 2013.

RAFID-OIC Chief, Ms. Rebecca R. Atega strategi-cally initiated the idea in identifying schools to give the f irsthand informa-tion on the NYR goals. Based on her observation, schools are an apt avenue to share the three-fold goal of achieving rice-self-sufficiency in the country, promoting better health among rice consumers and to improve the pro-ductivity and income of rice farmers.

The collaboration of Provincial Agriculturist Dr. Joriz Elevazo, thru Ms. Jessica Unson, Provincial Rice Coordinator of Agu-san del Sur together with Municipal Agriculturist of

NYr 2013 info-Caravan: Youths’ Participation

A PROUD FARMER’S DAUGHTER. Ms. Jessica Unson, Provincial Rice Coordinator of Agusan del Sur take the chance to ask Riza Mae Bete, Grade III pupil from Esperanza Central SPED School if she is proud to be a daughter of a rice farmer. “Proud ko nga ang akong Papa mag-uuma, tungod kay dili lang para sa amo ang iyang gi-tanom nga humay, pati napud sa uban tao,” she said. (Photo by. Randy Narada/DA-RAFID XIII)

Esperanza Zaldy Manug and Municipal Agricultur-ist of Bunawan Rhodora Garcines identified public schools to be the receiver of the message.

Estimated 5OO elemen-tary pupils from Esper-anza Central SPED School, highschool students from Agusan del Sur Science High School, and college students from ASSCAT Bunawan were informed to take the necessary actions on attaining such goals.

The department en-couraged the involvement of every student to be a responsible rice consumer, managing food staples consumption and lobby-ing the role of the youth

to say THANK YOU, or DAGHANG SALAMAT for every rice farmer they will meet. It is part of the learning process that a simple thanksgiving for the main actors-farmers will boost their credibility and can help them to be more inspired to farm.

The Department of Ag-riculture – Caraga has a positive outlook that the involvement and interest of the youth in agriculture sector will be restored through effective commu-nication. The department is thinking of more ways to make people understand and use information to improve their lives. (Rhea Abao/DA-RAFID XIII)

Engr. Sangtian further said that BCWD will con-tinue the Water Mainte-nance Program to improve efficiency of water meters.

The program will include such services as withdrawal and replacement of water meters installed for the past

five years or more to ensure accurate reading of water consumption.

“There were already 35,726 active metered con-nections, including 1,619 new connections coming from 56 barangays,’ he dis-closed.

He also assured that BCWD will pursue the de-velopment and protection of the Taguibo Watershed by intensifying the agro-forestry project and by be-ing vigilant against illegal activities within the area (JPG/PIA-Caraga/asf)

C A M P R A F A E L RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – A series of robbery incidents has been reported in various parts of Caraga Region, this week.

Afternoon of April 1, three workers of the Green Valley Bank, identified as Lorna G. Laquindanum, sales agent, 52 years old, married; Roldan L. Pelegria, helper, 24 years old, single, both of P-6, Brgy Bading, this city; and Jonathan H. Anobong, driver, 39 years old, single of P-6, Brgy Tandang Sora were robbed by two unidentified persons at Purok 13, Km 3, Barangay Baan.

Police investigators said the victims were about to drive their vehicle when

the perpetrators, armed with undetermined types of firearms, held them up carting away some P90,000.00 in cash, three c e l l p h o n e s , a w a l l e t containing P2,000.00, black sling bag containing a watch, one personal check and important documents.

The robbers fled toward the city proper aboard a motorcycle. A team from the Theft and Robbery Unit, led by Police Inspector Agustin M. Navarro, with personnel from the Butuan City Public Safety Company, pursued the culprits.

Recovered from the crime scene was one fired cartridge of undetermined caliber of firearm.

Meanwhile, the Butuan

FM Marketing and General Merchandise at Purok A-2, Brgy Taglatawan, Bayugan City was robbed by two unidentified persons in masks and bull caps.

Initial investigation conducted by the Bayugan City Police Station revealed that the robbers, armed with short firearms of unknown types, succeeded in carting away P4,500.00 in cash, three units of cellular phones worth P4,700, a wallet containing P1,500.00 and identification cards.

The perpetrators fled t ow a r d a n u n k n ow n direction after the incident aboard a motorcycle.

Both incidents are still being investigated by the police. (ZMP/MMGasf)

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COTABATO PROVINCE - With its humble desire to train the grade 5 pupils into being potential leaders, the municipality of Midsayap has launched the 3rd Gov. Lala Summer Peace Kids Camp at the Midsayap Pilot Elementary School, March 15, this year.

Midsayap launches Summer Peace Kids Camp

The three-day activity was participated in by 2,289 pupils of various tribes from all school districts, hearing lectures on leadership, environment, sports, climate change, basic survival, social, cultural and religious acts, and emergency preparedness skills.

At the opening program, G o v e r n o r E m m y l o u

“Lala” J. Taliño-Mendoza encouraged the participants to apply what they have learned from school to become good leaders in the future, while stating that she expects their active participation, based on the set activities.

“I fe e l happy t hat there are more pupils in attendance this year. This means more challenge for

us to improve and continue our program, as we officially conduct this annually,” she said.

As a form of anti-war campaign, the participants are taught to mingle and communicate not only with

their fellow tribes, but also with other people around.

In order to bridge the gap, the participants were

grouped together to share their ideas, traditions, and talents.

Governor Mendoza, together with Board Member Celestino Rapacon and the local officials of Midsayap, facilitators, guests, and participants altogether sang the official hymn for the Summer Kids Peace Camp.

The conduct of the 3rd Gov. Lala Summer Peace Kids Camp was in collaboration with the Department of Education (DepEd), the Local Government Unit of Midsayap, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of the Philippines (Cotabato Chapter), with the Provincial Treasurer’s Office, as in-charge of the activity (sgjh/pgo/asf)

KORONADAL CITY - Sixty-eight additional midwives are scheduled for deployment to remote villages in Lanao del Sur this month, according to the Department of Health - Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DOH-ARMM).

ARMM Health Secretary Dr. Kadil Sinolinding Jr., said the placement of midwives in far-f lung barangays is part of DOH-ARMM’s Midwives in Every Community in ARMM (MECA) project.

M E C A p r o j e c t , Sinolinding explained, is designed to help address maternal and infant care concerns in some of the depressed and far-flung areas in ARMM.

It is a lso aimed at

providing wider access to health care intended to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates in the ARMM.

Apart from attending to the health needs of pregnant mothers and newborn babies, these midwives are also trained to cater to basic health concerns in the communities where they are assigned, he added.

They will also educate women on reproductive health as well as keep track of and evaluate all other health concerns in their area of responsibility .

To date, DOH-ARMM has hired and deployed more than 300 midwives to communities in the five component province and two cities of the region.

Before the impending

deployment, DOH-ARMM has hired on renewable contract 72 registered midwives who were assigned to villages in Maguindanao province.

“We will continue to hire registered midwives to supply the growing necessities on prenatal care and reproductive health in the succeeding years,” Sinolinding said.

Sinolinding encouraged the midwives to be more focused on their job because they will be acting like doctors in their assigned areas.

He also emphasized the importance of time management and dedication to their work as key factors to becoming excel lent midwives.

For every month of

service, each midwife will receive P10,000 to be drawn from the local agency’s funds. Each contract lasts for six months, renewable only after a performance evaluation.

"I know it needs sacrifice for midwives to be deployed in far flung communities where the people have been hungry for basic health services," Sinolinding said.

Sinolinding added that they are now considering deployment of doctors to every municipality and a rural health to every barangay in the region.

ARMM includes the provinces of Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi as well as the cities of Marawi and Lamitan. (DEDoguiles-PIA 12/asf)

68 additional midwives deployed to Lanao Sur villages

By Danilo E. Doguiles

KO R O NA DA L C I T Y - A f t e r t h e r e c e nt l y concluded 2nd Agri-Pinoy Rice Achievers Awards, the Department of Agriculture (DA 12) is opening another country-wide search, this time recognizing LGUs and i nd iv i du a l s w i t h outstanding performance in organic farming.

DA 12 , announced today that the Department has allotted at least Php 26 million as prizes in the form of project grants a n d c a s h i n c e n t i v e s for the winners of the Organic Agriculture-Local Government Unit Awards.

Information on the nationwide search indicates that top three performing provinces -- one each in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao -- will receive Php 3 million worth of project grants and a plaque.

Top performing city or municipality in each region will also take home Php 1 million worth of project for their respective identified farmer group beneficiaries.

For t he ind iv idu a l category, P30,000 worth of cash prize and plaque await each of the three provincial focal persons. The same prize awaits the best city or municipal organic agriculture focal person and top performing agricultural extension worker in each region.

In an earlier interview, Enriqueto Natividad, DA 12’s Regional Technical Director for Research

an d R e g u l at i ons an d organic agriculture focal person, said the award is intended to encourage LGUs to convert 5 percent of their agricultural lands to organic farming.

It also aims to harness local level participation i n e nsu r i ng e f fe c t ive implementation of National O r g a n i c A g r i c u l t u r e Program (NOAP).

The search is being spearheaded by the the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards (BAFPS) as the Administrative and Technical Secretariat of the Nat iona l Organic Ag r i c u l t u re P ro g r a m ( N OA P ) pu r s u a nt t o R e p u b l i c A c t 1 0 0 6 8 o t h e r w i s e k n o w n a s the Philippine Organic Agriculture Act of 2010

The OA LGU Awards is a way to commend the involvement and to further encourage the local government unit (LGUs) as wel l as the agr icultural extension workers (AEWs) in the promotion and spread of the organic agriculture in the country, he added.

For more information and guidelines, interested parties may contact the of f ice of the Organic Agriculture Program at DA 12 through telephone numbers (083) 520-0622 or visit the DA 12 website, w w w. r f u 1 2 . d a . gov. ph . (DEDoguiles-PIA 12 with LMSalvo/DA 12/asf )

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A R A K A N , N O R T H C O TA BAT O – T h e distribution of cattles led the livelihood programs in the 2nd District of North Cotabato, March 12, this year in the municipality of Arakan.

With a total of 29 cattle stocks and carabaos d i s t r i bute d to lu ck y Indigenous People (IPs) of President Roxas, Antipas, and Arakan, the beneficiaries signed the memorandum of agreement with the provincial government stipulating that the farmer beneficiaries are mandated to give either the mother or the offspring, preferably female, to their respective barangays, to be used for another animal dispersal.

The remaining cattle stocks will be automatically owned by the beneficiaries.

From the 29 catt le

livestock leads livelihood in 2nd District of N.Cot.

distributed, Arakan received 21 heads, President Roxas has 3 heads, and Antipas with 5 heads.

In her inspirational message during the dispersal ceremony, Governor Emmylou “Lala” J. Taliño-Mendoza reminded the IPs that the project’s main purpose is to promote animal husbandry and to preserve the traditional knowledge of conserving local

cattle breed. She added that through

this aim, they are committing themselves in taking care of what they received from the government, thus will make a sustainable option for their livelihood.

Under this program, the Provincial Government of Cotabato finances the cost of acquiring the livestock through its 2012 20%

Economic Development Fund. The farmers will then raise

them until they give birth. The project is facilitated by some personnel from the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian, Cotabato Province.

Mayor Rene V. Rubino, B o ard Memb er No el Baynosa, and Board Member Cris Cadungon are also in attendance during the program. (sgjh/pgo/asf)

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THINK a minute.A Bank in New York

City had some flowers sent to another bank that had moved to a new building. But there was a mix-up at the flower shop, and the card that was sent read: “With our deepest sym-pathy.”

The florist was so em-barrassed and apologized for her mix-up. But she felt even worse when she realized that the card to the bank was sent instead to a funeral.

This card read: “Con-gratulations on your new location!” You can imagine the surprise of the dead person’s family when they read that card! All joking aside.

You know that’s actually an accurate way to describe what happens when we die. While we’re alive on this

New location

earth, our body is just our temporary house. Doctors say that after we reach the age of about 20 years old, our body begins to deteriorate and slowly die.

Our hair turning gray and thin, wrinkles in our skin, and many other changes in our body are all signs that our aging house is falling down. No one escapes this fact of life!

All joking aside. You know that’s actually an accurate way to describe what happens when we die.

While we’re alive on this earth, our body is just our temporary house.

Doctors say that after we reach the age of about 20 years old, our body begins to deteriorate and slowly die.

Our hair turning gray and thin, wrinkles in our skin, and many other changes in our body are all signs that our aging house is falling down. No one escapes this fact of life!

However, we have a soul that never dies, so when our

body dies we just change locations. And our next location is not just for 70 years, it’s our permanent home—forever.

Jesus Christ said that there are only 2 locations that we can live in after we die: heaven or hell. Fortu-nately, the choice is ours to make now while we’re still in this temporary location.

If we choose heaven, then all we need to do is ask Jesus for His gift of forgiveness for living our own way. Then, ask Him to take charge of our new life so we can start living His right way every day for the rest of our life in this location, as well as forever with Him in our permanent location. So if your life ended today, do you know where you would relocate?

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LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you…” (Deuter-onomy 28:47-48, the Holy Bible).

-ooo-IS THAT ALL THAT

MALACANANG CAN DO FOR JONAS? Pardon my asking but, really, is that all that Malacanang can do in the case of Jonas Burgos, in the face of mounting evidence that soldiers from the Philippine Army were the ones who kidnapped him in 2007 and who, from all indications, continue to

detain him up to now, or, as a new petition filed with the Supreme Court is saying, has already “disposed of him in a manner only (the kidnappers) can explain”?

I mean, can Malacanang be satisfied in merely saying that, it is up to the courts to find out if the disappear-ance of Jonas was really the handiwork of the military? I know those involved must be given “due process”, or an opportunity to defend themselves.

But cannot Malacanang,

with the awesome powers of the presidency, do its own investigation into the case and then do some-thing that will assure each and every Filipino citizen that no one can just kidnap anyone without paying for the dastardly deed, at least administratively, since the President is technically the commander-in-chief of the military? More especially in the case of President Aquino who was voted into office on the crest of a popular belief that he will not tolerate

wrongdoings by military men?

-ooo-PRAY FOR THE SMUG-

GLERS: So, if the big oil companies in the Philippines and even top officials of government know that ram-pant smuggling of gasoline and gas products have been going on here, depriving the country of at least P30 bil-lion in unpaid taxes yearly, why is something not being done about it?

Surely, this kind of a big-time, billion-peso, cheating could not flourish unless the affected oil companies themselves, and the gov-ernment officials involved in selling gasoline, have something in it, too, in one way or another? Indeed, this needs investigating, but then, I am sure

Cris diaz

REP. Rufus Rodriguez, 2nd District of Cagayan de Oro City, vehemently opposed the opening of the Laguind-ingan airport in Misamis Oriental. Rodriguez lodged his opposition through a resolution that he passed in Congress before the august body went into recess last February.

Rodriguez wants the opening of the new airport until next year when all its navigational instruments for a safe air travel are in place. Business-men in North Mindanao and the tourism industry also opposed the premature opening of the Laguindingan airport.

However, the Civil Aviation Administration of the Philippines (CAAP) wants Laguindingan airport to open on April 30, 2013. Certainly, the insistence of CAAP to open the airport without listening to the clamor of various stakeholders poses doubts than appreciation. It seems an unseen hand is trying to coerce CAAP to do things even against the will of the majority. CAAP should rethink its position otherwise taking the Laguindingan issue haphazardly would definitely tarnish its respected image as an administrator of the air transportation industry in the country.

The Laguindingan airport is a very interesting is-sue. However, for individuals with ordinary minds, the Laguindingan issue is no big deal. On the other hand, those who think of the welfare of the people think other-wise. Obviously, Rodriguez and other stakeholders were concerned about the safety of the public. Opening the

Laguindingan airport without considering the instal-lation of vital navigational instruments means putting the lives and limbs of people at stake. It is incredible to think of government officials and CAAP to be so dumb.

As earlier said, CAAP could be a victim of unseen hands of people whose personal interests supersede against the welfare of the public. To put it simply, poli-tics are showing its dirty hands in the Laguindingan. Perhaps, to please a frustrated politician who wants the credit of the Laguindingan airport? Bull!

Well, Gov. Oscar Moreno of Misamis Oriental denied pressuring CAAP to open the Laguindingan airport in order to gain credit for it. Of course, Moreno and anyone else in his stead would do the denial at all costs, too. Yet, Moreno’s silence and failure to oppose the apparent danger posed by the premature opening of the Laguindingan airport was enough to disprove his intentions.

For Moreno, getting credit for the opening of the Laguindingan airport under his watch is a potent cam-paign material as the midterm elections near. Of course, Moreno did not pressure CAAP. He has no personality to do so. Yet, with his manifest closeness to Sec. Mar Roxas, who once served as transportation Secretary, Moreno could pull strings at the backstage.

The people of Northern Mindanao were just thankful to have Rodriguez who openly opposes the premature opening of the Laguindingan airport. Rodriguez said that CAAP has no moral ground to deny the opposi-tion pushed by stakeholders in the region. “We do not want to think that we are a pushover,” Rodriguez said.

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THERE really was nothing to be surprised about when I read in this newspaper the results of the survey con-ducted by the Fr. Saturnino Urios University in Butuan City showing incumbent Cong. Jose “Joboy” Aquino leading incumbent Mayor Ferdinand Amante in the city’s mayoralty race.

My involvement in Bu-tuan City’s politics for a few months last year as part of the campaign team of former National Food Authority Administrator Angelito “Lito” Banayo’s aborted congressional bid, I am aware of the tempera-ment of that city’s political pot. Since we started our political work there, we were already aware of Aquino’s advantage over Amante.

Even if Amante is just on his first term, silently the people, at least the major-ity of the total populace, were already crying out for change in the city’s leader-ship. In fact, the people’s clamor for change in the city’s leadership was what prompted Aquino to forego a third term bid for his congressional seat where he was a sure winner.

Butuan city residents over whelmingly voted Amante to his current post in 2010 on account of his campaign promise of bringing about change and reforms. Such promise catapulted him to the may-oralty post by beating the wife of the late well-loved

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former mayor.Sadly, Amante miserably

failed to live up to his vow of bringing about change and reforms at City Hall. Things even got worse during his watch. The people were disenchanted because the hands of his cousin who is well-ensconced at the pro-vincial capitol as Agusan del Norte’s governor was seen as the one running the city through the so-called “Tres Marias.”

Despite his being a medi-cal practitioner, Amante failed to diagnose the ill-nesses plaguing the city. Such failure incapacitated him from coming up with the right cure for the vari-ous illnesses that kept the city at sick bay. His being a mere proxy mayor of his more powerful cousin did him in. His hands were tied because he never asserted his being the duly elected mayor.

In his entire term, he just kowtowed to the wishes, importuning of his cousin. Amante, the mayor, never became a man of his own as Butuan’s chief executive.

It was because of this that he never initiated any move to address the grinding poverty of the mass of the Butuanons.

Amante never internal-ized the core concept of his being the city’s leader which is to bring the people out of their afflictions, sufferings and miseries to their own Promised Land, a land that is flowing with milk and honey, to borrow the bibli-cal description of the land where God wanted Moses to bring the Israelites to from Egypt.

In reality, however, this is the problem with the country’s political leaders. It has never been internal-ized by our political leaders who have been given the people’s mandate that their primordial task is to liberate, free the people from their afflictions, sufferings and miseries. This has never been the concept why our political leaders are there in their lofty elective positions.

This failure to under-stand what is their primor-dial task is the reason why our political leaders like

Amante of Butuan could not come up with a program of government that is eco-nomically uplifting to the economically challenged. It is for this reason that all Amante could do is ask for additional intelligence fund, purchase close circuit television cameras, sell the old and dilapidated heavy equipment of the city as scrap, spend millions of pesos for the concreting of their old garden plaza, to cite just a few of his ad-ministration’s follies.

Before starting our po-litical work for Banayo, we commissioned a no-nonsense survey sometime in July last year to ascertain the people’s sentiments and know their concerns, long-ings and aspirations. Banayo himself conducted a series of no-nonsense dialogues with several sectors of the city’s populace.

Our findings showed that the main concern of the Butuanons were job and livelihood opportunities to extricate them from poverty. The abject poverty of the Butuanons can best be seen in their purchasing power which is very low that the only mall there is not the priority for replenishment of their stocks from their sup-ply warehouse in Cagayan de Oro City because the turn over of goods in Butuan such as shoe polish is very slow.

But instead of addressing the miserable

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By DON PAGUSARA of DavaoToday.com

TREMENDOUS investments in monetary and human resources have been poured into this political exercise called elections. And if we count the number of human lives wasted in the many years that elections have been conducted since the birth of the Philippine Republic, we can only clack our tongues and shake our heads. But at bottom of these trivial gestures is a quality of pessimism that put elections in grievous doubt if it can ever yet emancipate the people from the miserable morass they are in.

This loss of faith in the electoral system stems from people’s perception of its being a stupendous mockery of democratic principles. Our electoral processes are basically tailored after the interests of the traditional political parties claiming to be representatives of the majority of the people. In fact they represent only a very small percentage of the entire population.

These political parties — chiefly, the Liberal Party and Nacionalista Party — are decidedly tied up to the interests of the economic elite in Philippine society.

And who are the elite? They are the landlords and capitalists, including the bureaucrats who amass wealth while in office.

The entire government apparatus and bureaucracy are made to cater to the wants and wishes of this societal elite. Administrative programs and legislative measures are designed for their exclusive advantage. Political dynasticism and warlordism serve as lance and shield of their perpetual rule.

In any electoral contest, the candidates belonging to either of these two parties, come out the victors. Why? Simply because they have the luxury of resources — millions of money to spend for all imaginable devious schemes and means to climb to power.

What about the true representatives of the basic toiling masses? The workers and the farmers? Can they have a few thousands for campaign expenditures? Never! Unless some landlords or capitalists sponsor them and spend for their candidacy! In which case, they now become protégées eternally beholden to such benefactors. And with that, they have become representatives, not of the workers or farmers, but of the landlords or the capitalists.

And this is the very rationale for the qualification

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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews– Of the country’s 52 million vot-ers, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s 1.3 million voters will spend the longest time in the polling precincts in May because they will not only elect national and local officials but regional as well. While voters in other towns nationwide need to shade only 30 or 31 ovals on the left side of the candidates’ names for 12 senators, one party-list representative, one Congres-sional representative, one governor, one vice governor, four or five provincial board members, one mayor, one vice mayor and eight municipal board members, ARMM voters have to shade five more for the regional governor, regional vice governor and three members of the Regional Legislative Assembly (RLA) per district. Lawyer Ray Sumalipao, re-gional director of the Commis-sion on Elections (Comelec) in the ARMM, told MindaNews the estimated shading time for each ballot in the ARMM is five minutes. Voters in Basilan and Tawi-tawi need to shade 35 ovals because Basilan has only eight provincial board members and voters elect four per district. But a voter in Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao and Sulu, need to shade 36 ovals because they have a ten-member board and voters elect five per district. ARMM is the only region in the country where voters will experience synchronized elections at the national, local and regional level. ARMM voters will elect two governors and two vice gover-nors — provincial and regional – and five sets of legislators: Senator, House Representa-tive, Regional Assemblyman, Provincial Board Member and Municipal Councilor. At stake in the ARMM elec-tion which was supposed to have been held on August 8 last year, are 26 posts – gov-ernor, vice governor and 24 assemblyman at three per congressional district. The Citizens Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reforms, Inc. (Citizens CARE), a Comelec-accredited election watchdog, is fielding 7,000 volunteers to assist in voter’s information and values education in the ARMM provinces of Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-tawi, Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur and the

cities of Marawi and Lamitan. Citizens CARE Executive Director Salic Ibrahim told MindaNews that part of the voters’ education would be to show them a template of the ballots that are available for downloading at the Comelec website. Candidates A total of 94 candidates are running for the ARMM’s 26 posts. Six candidates, including OIC ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman and former ARMM Governor Nur Misuari are running for ARMM Governor, eight are running for Vice Governor and 80 are running for the 24 regional assembly seats. Aside from Hataman, who is the Liberal Party’s candidate, and Misuari (Independent), also running for Governor are former Sultan Kudarat Governor and Representative Pax Mangudadatu (Ind.) for-mer Agrarian Reform regional director Yusoph Mama (Ind.), Elsie New Orejudos (Ind.) and Aisha Fatima Buena Pruden-cio (Democratic Party of the Philippines). Hataman, former three-term Anak Mindanaw party-list Representative, took over the ARMM as OIC Governor on December 22, 2011. Misuari is the longest serv-ing ARMM Governor in the 23-year old ARMM. Misuari, founding chair of the Moro National Liberation Front who signed the Final Peace Agreement with the Philippine government on September 2, 1996 and was elected a full week later, served as Gover-nor from September 30, 1996 until his arrest off Sabah on November 24, 2001. Mangudadatu is uncle of reelectionist Maguindanao Governor Esmael Manguda-datu (LP). Running for vice gover-nor are former ARMM Lo-cal Governments Secretary Haroun Alrashid Alonto Luc-man (LP), Pundatoon Sultan Bagol (Ompia Party), Sultan Bob Datimbang (Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino), Bashier Manalao (PDP-Laban), and Independent candidates Mesug Manaloco, Abdulaziz Mangan-daki, Marconi Curso Paiso, and Pundato Sharief. There are 80 candidates running for 24 RLA seats at three per congressional district: 11 in Basilan’s lone district; nine in Tawi-tawi;

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“We’ve been urging (the government) for how many years already to put a stop to these brownouts,” she stressed.

Bagonoc said the con-tinuing long brownouts have severely affected the operations of local busi-nesses as well as government and private offices.

“It is pestering not only the lives of businessmen but of the ordinary itizens as well,” she said.

Bagonoc originally in-troduced the resolution during its regular session last week but the council decided to defer its action on the matter due to the scheduled regional power forum here last March 25 that was joined by Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla.

The councilor, who heads the council’s major-ity bloc, also authored a pending resolution request-ing the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council to look into the possibility of declaring a state of calamity in the city due to the negative impact of the long brownouts to the local economy and human health.

The local business sector earlier joined calls for the President to use his emer-gency powers to resolve the power crisis in Mindanao.

In support of the move, administration lawmakers proposed for the granting by Congress of the neces-sary emergency powers to the President to address the power situation in Mind-anao more swiftly.

Malacañang said last week it is already looking into the proposal but noted that the Department of En-ergy and other stakeholders in the island were already working on possible solu-tions to the problem.

Distr ibut ion ut i l ity South Cotabato II Electric Cooperative (Socoteco II) is presently implementing daily rotating brownouts lasting seven hours for each of its two feeder grouping, or a total of 14 hours due to the power shortage.

Socoteco II, which has a daily average peak power demand of 112 MW, serves this city, the entire Sarangani province and the munici-palities of Tupi and Polo-molok in South Cotabato.

In the last two weeks, Napocor’s power allocation to the area only ranged from 40 to 49 MW, resulting to a deficit of between 33 to 40 MW.

Aboitiz-owned Therma Marine Inc. (TMI) augments the area’s power supplies by 30 MW based on a power sales agreement that it ear-lier signed with the electric cooperative.

Socoteco II forged the sales deal with TMI in 2011 after Napocor slashed the area’s power allocation to the area by 30 percent or from 104 MW to 72 MW in 2012.

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the hospital here by the police, Nojapa told report-ers that his captors did not harm him in any way.

“*Kay gipasaka naman gyud sa taas, napamatud-an na wala koy sala* (It was proven that I did not commit any crime by their higher ups),” he said.

In a press statement, the NDF Southern Min-danao said that after an investigation by the NPA, “no sufficient evidence was established to warrant his (Nojapa’s) prosecution for serious crimes committed against the Filipino people and the revolutionary move-ment.”

Senior Supt. Aaron Aqui-no, Police Regional Office 11 chief for directorial staff and former ComVal provin-cial police director, said in an interview while waiting for Nojapa’s arrival that the latter would undergo medi-cal and physical exams and tactical interrogation.

Duterte said in an inter-view after he turned over Nojapa to the police that his role in the release was only as a “delivery boy of policemen and soldiers held captives by the NPA.”

He also fetched two other NPA prisoners of war (POW)—Senior Po-lice Officer 1 Ruel Pasion and the Army Private First Class Jezreel Culango—last February 21 in Laak town, also in ComVal.

Duterte cited that his act “was a minor role as a simple deed for his fellow-men that had nothing to do with the war.”

“Wala naman tay ma-himo, naa na man na (We can’t do anything about it. That’s already there). But, of course, everybody must remember, including the Communist Party [of the Philippines], the NPA and the NDF that I am with the government,” he added.

He said he would also be willing to “make errands for the police to save lives, make everybody happy” if the police would ask him too.

Duterte said picking up the hostage using a helicop-ter costs P100,000, and that “he billed both the NPA and the police equally for the expenses.” (Lorie Ann Cascaro/MindaNews)

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Under the scheme, which will be coursed through NEA, Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla said electric cooperatives will be given a grace period of two years wherein they will only be required to pay for the loan’s interest.

After two years, he said the cooperatives will have an option to pay for the loan principal and interest or completely waive any further payment by return-ing the generator sets to NEA. (Allen V. Estabillo/MindaNews)

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(Malmar) irrigation dam in Carmen town.

“Malmar is being studied now. Since we have that big dam for irrigation, we might as well maximize the water [for a hydropower plant],” she said.

Mendoza said they are also considering using so-lar energy to augment the dwindling power supply in the province.

In fact, Korean investors

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in the next three years or “as long as I’m here.”

Duterte is running un-opposed for the mayoralty post in the May 13, 2013 elections. He previously served as mayor for 19 years.

So far, the total amount extended for the educational assistance of the survivors and the dependents of the victims amounted to almost P4 million, he said, citing data from the City Social Services and Development Office.

Eighteen of the benefi-ciaries had since graduated and four others are complet-ing secondary education, he continued.

Among the graduates were the five children of Nelia Tiongco, 47, who was tending her small store at the Sasa wharf gate when the bombing happened. She was wounded in the abdomen.

In an interview, she cited that aside from the educa-tional assistance for her children who are all mar-ried now, she also received a start-up capital to rebuild her store, now located across Sasa wharf.

She told reporters dur-ing the commemoration program that she is “okay now and has nothing to complain about.”

“I have totally accepted [what] happened to me,” said Emy Dosaran, 31, who had just arrived at the wharf from Manila on board the Super Ferry vessel when the explosion happened.

She was on her way out of the gate when the bomb exploded, which she de-scribed as “a very quick incident.”

“I did not even notice it was a bomb,” Dosaran recalled.

The impact fractured her left leg that took two years to recover, she said, adding that she was able to gather the confidence to join the commemoration only three years ago.

Duterte said the city had three explosions in his 19 years as mayor, with the Sasa wharf bombing the third.

It followed the bombing at the old airport on March 4, 2003 that killed 20 persons and injured 146 others.

The bombing at the San Pedro Church on December 27, 1993 killed seven people and injured 151 others, 32 of them seriously wounded.

“This was a war of at-trition. No specifics. But I think the government was able to consolidate the forces and stabilize the situation,” Duterte said.

He branded the bomb attacks as “purely terrorism.”

In 2010, Toto Akman, one of the five suspects in the Sasa wharf bombing, as convicted and sentenced to lifetime imprisonment.

The five suspects, includ-ing Akman, were report-edly acquitted in the old airport bombing incident. (Lorie Ann A. Cascaro/MindaNews)

This year, Napocor im-posed another 30 percent cut to the area’s power sup-plies or specifically from 72 MW to 52 MW. (Allen V. Estabillo/MindaNews)

have already expressed their interests in putting up a solar-powered plant in the province, she disclosed.

Mendoza said a team from the Provincial Plan-ning and Development Of-fice has been tasked to visit the existing project of the Koreans in Dapitan City and in Tanay, Rizal.

The governor admitted that developing solar power is expensive, ”but in the long run we can save so much.”

She appealed to her constituents to be patient, saying: “Even if you have this study, it doesn’t mean that you will have available power tomorrow. It takes years. But what is important is that we have started.”

The governor also ex-plained that even if she will have the commitment of the investors, it is important that a comprehensive data should be made available first.

Besides hydro and solar as potential energy sources, Mendoza said that they are also considering biomass as an alternative source of energy. The province has a lot of rice mills, she said, noting their wastes can produce biomass energy.

For the development of potential alternative energy sources, Mendoza said they have already forwarded the raw data to prospective in-vestors for review. “Because we don’t have the expertise to analyze as well as the technology. Then we will know what’s the timeline, how much will it cost, how many years to build, the capitalization. These are the things that will follow.”

Mendoza said they are not considering the con-struction of a coal-fired power plant in the province as an option to address the area’s power problem. “We are for clean energy,” she noted.

*Immediate option*While studies are still

underway, Mendoza said the provincial government has already signified its interest last month to lease a gen-erator set as an immediate option to ease the outage in the area.

Aside from the genera-tor set, she also bared that the provincial government supports the case filed by Kidapawan City Vice Mayor Joseph Evangelista against the Department of Energy and power executives for not acting on calls to allocate 25 percent of the output of the geothermal power plant to this city and to the province.

Mendoza said the 25 percent allocation to the host community, which is the province, “should not be debated” since it is under the Electric Power Industry Reform Act.

* * The civil case, which was filed before the Regional Trial Court Branch 23 here in April 2012, is to compel the DOE, National Power Corporation and the Lopez-owned Energy Development Corporation to supply the city with 25 percent of the

electricity produced by the geothermal plant in this city. (Keith Bacongco / Mind-aNews)

chairman Hadjihad Kadil was wounded during the incident but now in stable condition.

He said, Sulu authorities are still investigating to one of the armed suspects known by his alias ‘Aziz’ who is allegedly one of the relatives of the said mayor.

Hassan accuses the local chief executive of protecting the suspects and inaction of the case instead.

Town vice mayor Limta-jal Hassan, who is nephew of the village chairman was immediately take action to resolve the case by ordering the suspects to submit to the authorities.

It can be recalled that on March 19, this year Hassan together with his children were leaving from Mangkalay village and al-legedly strafed by unknown armed men upon reaching Tingkangan village. with Ric Clet

Corporation (Napocor) expires in August.

Engr. Santiago Tudio, Socoteco I general manager, said they are set to negoti-ate with the Department of Energy (DoE) and the National Electrification Ad-ministration (NEA) for a loan arrangement that will allow the cooperative to purchase the generator set.

“We had long been plan-ning to acquire a modular generator set. Now here’s an opportunity for us to acquire one with the government’s help so we’ll do it,” he told MindaNews yesterday.

Tudio said they decided to acquire a modular genera-tor set to counter the impact of the expected reduction by 10 MW of the area’s power allocation from the Napocor by August.

Socoteco I serves Koro-nadal City, eight munici-palities in South Cotabato and Lutayan town in Sultan Kudarat.

The electric cooperative’s daily power allocation from the Napocor reaches around 27 MW or 7 MW short of its 34 MW contract.

But Socoteco I’s daily peak demand only reaches around 32 MW, making its deficit at just 5 MW.

Tudio said the electric cooperative has a stand-by supply of 4 MW from its power sales deal with Aboitiz-owned Therma Marine Inc.

“Right now, our daily rotating brownouts only last about an hour but it might reach seven hours by August,” he said.

Napocor has started to reduce its power allocation to electric cooperatives in Mindanao last year due to the declining generation capacity of its hydroelectric plants in Bukidnon and Lanao del Norte.

Several areas in Mind-anao, including this city, have been experiencing prolonged rotating brown-outs lasting as high as seven hours since January due to the worsening power short-age in the island’s power grid.

The shortage was mainly blamed on the declining water inflow at the hydro-electric plants due to lack of rains since last month and the ongoing rehabilita-tion of several power plant complexes.

Based on the power situ-ation outlook released by the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines for Wednesday, Mindanao grid’s system capacity is presently at 972 MW or 118 MW short of the area’s system peak of 1147 MW.

As alternative solution to the problem, the DoE has offered a loan scheme that will allow electric co-operatives in Mindanao acquire their own modular generator sets.

of possible repeat of such incidents saying, “Hinaut pa unta… Ang Davao ok na. Ok na. Kung magpabilin ang mga sabot-sabot nga istorya ug mo-hold na…ayaw lang ang Davao…(I hope not… Davao is okay now. If talks would hold… just spare Davao).”

he said he had talked with MNLF Chair Nur Misuari, and “everyone.”

“Mao ning military moingon ngano ni si Mayor… Ayaw mog samok samok nako, total.. maayo lang mo sa bala ug pusil, di ninyo kayang mag-underground og istorya. Dili ninyo na trabaho, pasagdi lang ko (That’s why the military would ask why I am doing it, I’d tell them, don’t fuss with me. After all, you’re only good with bullets and guns, you cannot deal with underground talks. That’s not your job, just let me be),” he said.

Asked by reporters later after his speech if justice has been served the victims of the Sasa wharf bombing, Duterte replied, “This is a war of attrition, used to be a war of attrition, so no specifics but I think government was able to consolidate the forces and stabilized the situation.”

He said it was “purely terrorism” and so there are no particulars in terms of identity of suspects, to speak of.

one Toto Akman a suspect in the blast has been sentenced to reclusion perpetua or life sentence in 2010 by a Regional Trial Court here for direct participation in the bombing.

The RTC 12 under Presiding Judge Pelagio Paguican ordered Akman to pay the casualties a total 4.125 million.

Akman, along with five others, was also reportedly suspected of being involved in the March 4 Davao Airport Bombing but was acquitted by Judge Paguican over failure of the prosecution to present enough evidence to prove guilt. (Cheryll D. Fiel, davaotoday.com)

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nothing is going to come out from any such investiga-tion anyway. Perhaps, the least Filipinos can do is to pray for our country and for those who are involved in the smuggling of gasoline, and ask God to show His justice right away!

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COME A WAY OF LIFE: Then, gasoline smuggling is not the only smuggling that is crippling the economy of this country. We have also heard of rice smug-gling, vegetable smuggling, spices smuggling, luxury

Smuggling...from page 6

Pot...from page 7

condition of his constitu-ents, Amante thought of other things, other projects that have nothing to do with the uplifting of the economic lot of the Butuanons.

This failure is now very glaring in the people’s desire to have him replaced by Aquino.

I just hope Aquino will not tread the same path that Amante foolishly tread that only made him irrelevant to the Butuanons.

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cars smuggling, illegal drugs smuggling, jewelry smug-gling, meat smuggling, and smuggling of almost every good or product from coun-tries like China and Taiwan.

Indeed, big-time smug-gling has become a way of life here. But, why are these happening? Are the Bureau of Customs and the Department of Finance that helpless in fighting this malady? Why are they help-less? Are they not receiving the kind of support that the President of this country should be giving to them to terminate smuggling in any form, on any product, once and for all?

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“SMUGGLING LIB-ERALIZED IN RP”: From broadcaster Melo Acuna, in a recent Facebook post: “Over at EDSA Plaza Ho-tel (in Mandaluyong City) over cups of coffee, I heard something about petrol smuggling. `During the previous administration, oil smuggling was the province of one man,’ said someone. His friend replied: `Today, it has been liberalized.’ A third asked, ̀ Where’s ‘Daang Matuwid’?’ A lady friend of the three simply smiled!”

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KOREAN ESCAPE? What seems to be ignored in the on-going investigations on

the escape of a South Ko-rean fugitive, at the Ninoy Aquino International Air-port yet, is the fact that the Korean could not have solicited the help of any official or employee of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation or even of the Department of Transporta-tion and Communications by himself. There had to be someone working for him. Who was this? My take is that, it was this guy, whoever he was, who masterminded and facilitated the escape.

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imposed by the COME-LEC namely: that a candidate for national post should have the capacity [read: millions] to campaign nationwide.

Under the present setup, there’s no way a worker or a farmer or a fisherman or an urban poor can win an electoral seat, nationally or even locally.

Let us therefore stop call-ing our elections a democratic process.

Knowing this, what is the alternative road that can make of our elections a truly democratic one? The answer: reverse the situation by re-versing the process.

Let the top national of-ficials of the grassroots or-ganizations of the workers and farmers and other basic masses occupy and dominate the seats of the legislative body.

Instead of the individual candidates running under the traditional political parties occupying 80 – 90 percent of the seats in the national legislative body, let it be the other way around: the offi-cial leaders of the different sectoral organizations of the masses hold 80-90 percent of the national legislative seats.

No big sums of money will be involved here. The

national officers/leaders of the different organizations of the basic masses will auto-matically be allotted seats in proportion to the size of their respective constituen-cies. They are the true rep-resentatives of the mass of members who elected them as their officers and leaders. And so, they don’t need to be subjected again to elec-tions that require big outlay of money for campaigns.

The same procedure shall be followed in the legislative councils of provinces and municipalities. And even in the barangay levels.

Ambitious polit icians, or individual persons from the landlord and capital-ist classes who desire to be part of the legislative body shall be elected only by the unorganized sections of the population as their constituencies. They shall constitute a small minority in the national legislature — a small slice of the political pie.

The members of the Na-tional Legislature will be responsible in electing the President and Vice-President or Premier and Vice-Premier, as the case may be, in the executive branch of govern-ment.

Governors and mayors can only come from can-didates of the organized sectors of the majority of the masses. Not from any ambitious persons and indi-viduals who do not belong to any people’s organization.

By these broad participa-tory processes that involve the grassroots–the grass-roots who have long been denied the right to manifest their true will and interests–the fundamental principles rooted in a democracy are put into meaningful practice. A genuine democracy shall have been installed –one that is truly a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Sadly, what we have in our present dispensation is a government of the elite, by the elite and for the elite. This is anathema to the ideals of a true democracy.

---Don J. Pagusara is a

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- This is the 2nd Mindanao Business Leaders Awards, in a different category from the first one. The 1st Mindanao Business Leaders Awards was undertaken last year to give due recognition to the achievements of various Mindanao business leaders and entrepreneurs in various categories of homegrown corporate and individual business leadership achievements.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur— Complaints were raised against a municipal casual worker here who was reported to have harassed beneficiaries of the Pan-tawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) that they will lose their privileges if they will not vote for Mayor Jenny de Asis in the coming elections.

The Department of So-cial Welfare and Develop-ment has earlier warned local politicians not to take advantage of the program by threatening beneficiaries to support their candidacies if they want to continue the monthly financial benefits.

A concerned citizen re-ported to the local media yesterday that a certain Mrs. Bando, a casual worker of the municipal government, went to their remote village in Tagapua to threaten 4Ps beneficiaries that their fund support would be cut off if they will not vote for the incumbent mayor.

“She went to my neigh-bour on Tuesday night to harass them of losing their benefits if they would not vote for Mayor Jenny,” the source , who asked for ano-nymity, disclosed in a mobile phone interview.

Mindanao Daily News tried to get Mayor de Asis’ reactions through several text messages at the mayor’s office but to no avail.

This is not the first time that similar activities as the local Smile 92.7 FM reported on February that a casual employees also harassed 4Ps beneficiaries that they will be delisted from the

Municipal casual workers threaten beneficiaries of 4Ps to vote for the mayor

program if they will not vote for de Asis.

The station also reported that the barangay captain of San Isidro also threatened 4Ps beneficiaries when he inserted to speak during a gathering among them also last February.

The 4P is a human de-velopment program of the national government, a social protection strategy that invest in health and education of poor children aged 0-14 years old.

Through the Conditional Cash Transfer that will be deposited through ATM cards, the 4Ps beneficiaries would receive more than P1,000 pesos a month.

“Walang karapatan ang kahit sino na mag-alis ng

pangalan. Ang may karapa-tan lang ay ang DSWD re-gional office and national office,” said DSWD Secre-tary Jinky Soliman during the launch ug “Bawal ang Epal DIto” Campaign last January.

The $Ps has been an en-ticing source of rich votes for local officials seeking reelec-tion especially in Agusan del Sur where it has the biggest number of beneficiaries in Caraga region.

According to a report by the Philippine Information Agency, 4Ps have practically covered all 317 barangays in Agusan del Sur which has a total population of 46,191, representing 32 percent of the total 143,266 4Ps ben-eficiaries in Caraga region.

By CHris v. panGaniBan, Editor-at-large

THE Korean International Cooper-ation Agency (KOICA)- through the Center for overseas Agriculture and International Development (COAID), DA-RFU 10 through the Claveria Experiment Station (DA-CES) and the Misamis oriental State College of Agriculture and Technology (MOSCAT) of Claveria,

The facilitators of the training: (Seated from left) Dr. Lee, Chol-bang, Dr. Chang Hyun You, Dr. Alma L. Cosadio, Mushroom Project Coordinator of MOSCAT and Prof. Casimero Icalina (standing at the extreme rear behind Dr. Chang)

Farmers undergomushroom growing

Misamis oriental through the Institute of Agriculture, will be conducting a series of hands-on training on mushroom produc-tion on April 5 & 19, May 3 & 17, June 7 & 21 and July 5 and 19, 2013 to be held at MOSCAT Mushroom Laboratory.

The training includes an actual practice on making the growing bag for mushroom and producing commercial oyster mushroom. This activity is in support to the project on Tech-nology Transfer for Microbial/organic Fertilizer and Mushroom Cultivation in Claveria, Misamis oriental which is funded by KOICA-COAID.

Dr. Chang, Hyun-You, an expert on Mushroom Technology from Korea National College of Agriculture and Fisheries, South Korea and also the KOICA proj-ect team leader on Mushroom Technology Transfer is the re-source speaker. Participants to the training are the farmer benificiaries from barangays Luna and Lanise in Claveria, Misamis oriental who are interested on mushroom cultivation.

KOICA, the funding agency, is a government organization in Korea under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, engaged in international develop-ment cooperation by providing material and physical aid to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development. The COAID, the implementing agency and a subsidiary institution of Chungbuk National university in Korea, is implementing programs and projects in the developing countries like the Philippines, that focused on major program areas on rural development, environment and climate change.