KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 Dec) -- Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco has instructed the local police to closely watch two areas in the city believed to be havens for drug pushers.
The mayor named Barangay Nuangan and Alim Street where drug pushing is reportedly very rampant.
Gantuangco made his pronouncement during the presentation of two suspected drug couriers arrested by elements of the North Cotabato Task Force in a checkpoint in Barangay Lanao on Sunday afternoon.
The suspects were identified as Emran Samama, of Alim St., Kidapawan City, and cousin Naot Samama Ibrahim, 25, of Barangay Tungol, Datu Montawal, Maguindanao.
Seventeen sachets of suspected shabu with estimated street value of P5,000 were confiscated from the suspects.
Gantuangco has ordered Chief Insp. Leo Ajero, Kidapawan City police chief, to monitor the mentioned areas and arrest those involved in illegal drug activity.
“I received intelligence reports that there were suspicious looking individuals in these areas allegedly selling illegal drugs,” Gantuangco said.
He instructed Ajero to coordinate with barangay officials and civilian assets for possible arrest of suspected drug pushers in Kidapawan City.
The mayor said that these persons involved in drug selling come from the neighboring towns and provinces of North Cotabato. “But we believe that there are also some individuals from here who are involved in this illegal activity,” he added.
Ajero said he is now coordinating with their assets and other contacts in these areas to identify those behind the illegal drug trade.
The police has warned residents living along Alim Street and Barangay Nuangan that they will be arrested once proven that they are cuddling drug pushers.
Ajero said that since they began strengthening the campaign against illegal drugs in 40 villages of the city, some 20 drug users and pushers have been put behind bars.
He said they already have names of suspected drug users and pushers but noted that his office is conducting further investigations to confirm involvement of these persons in the illegal drug trade.
“Sooner of later we could arrest these persons once we establish solid evidence against them,” Ajero vowed. (Williamor A. Magbanua / MindaNews)
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Radio station gets bomb threat
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 December) – Soldiers and bomb experts cordoned on Friday night the compound and the area near the Catholic-run dxND-AM of the Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (NDBC) after two of its employees received information that an improvised explosive device (IED) was planted inside.
Members of the Explosives and Ordnance Disposal Team (EOD) of the Philippine Army and their bomb-sniffing dog immediately searched the area for the supposed bomb.
They, however, found no explosive and hours later, declared the area safe.
DXND’s finance and administrative officer Ping Barrientos and disc jockey Ritchie Joy Mamburao of dxDM-FM received information from “reliable sources” that an explosive was planted inside the compound, around 7 p.m., Friday.
The information came hours after a progressive peasant group and non-government organization in North Cotabato held a forum opposing the use of genetically-modified organisms (GMO).
It also came after the radio station, in its public affairs program over the weekend, read press statements from the militant Bayan Muna party-list group condemning the latest bombings in Metro Manila, including the latest blasts in the city.
The group accused the Arroyo government and the military as behind the explosions.
Chief Inspector Leo Ajero, city police director, said it is not only dxND that has received bomb threats after the November 22 blast that killed a mall employee and injured seven others, including a police officer.
Other business establishments, bus companies, and even the city government, had been receiving bomb and extortion threats from a group that identified itself as Al Khobar, Ajero said.
Ajero said they have yet to determine where the bomb threat against dxND-AM came from.
The Al Khobar, according to City Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco, admitted it orchestrated the twin blasts in the city on October 5 and the mall explosion on Nov. 22. The group, he said, tried to extort half a million pesos from the city government as protection money.
Gantuangco, however, said he is not bowing to the demands of the Al Khobar.
Kidapawan City starts solid waste segregation
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Local government officials, including environment experts from southwestern Mindanao, on Saturday led the dry-run of the implementation of the solid waste management project which aims to address the city's growing garbage problems, especially in the public market.
City environment officer Edgar Paalan said the volume of garbage being collected daily at the public market weighed about six tons, almost 30 percent of the total chunk of garbage collected in the city.
This is the reason why there's a need to manage the waste, Paalan said.
The first step, he said, is the segregation of waste into biodegradable, recyclable, and residual.
A biodegradable waste is a type of waste originating from plant or animal sources, which may be broken down by other living organisms. A biodegradable waste can also be composted or used to produce biogas.
A recyclable waste is a type of waste that has the potential to be recycled, including scrap iron, non-ferrous metals, bottles, glass, plastics, and paper.
The dry run, which is to be completed on November 26, includes the clean-up drive within the market and poblacion area, distribution of information materials, posting of solid waste management signages, and actual waste segregation.
The full implementation of the program will be on November 27.
Paalan said with a reinforced solid waste management plan, they hope to convert at least 40 percent of their biodegradable waste into other types.
The city is also set to construct a P5-million wastewater treatment facility intended for the wet market.
Paalan said the market, including the slaughterhouse, releases at least 35 cubic meters of wastewater everyday. This wastewater is discharged at the Nuangan River, one of the longest rivers in the city.
The facility, according to Paalan, has the capacity to convert at least 70 cubic meters of wastewater daily.
City Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco is set to enter into a loan agreement with the Development of the Philippines (DBP) after the City Council grants him an authority to do so.
The City of Kidapawan is only one of the many assisted LGUs in the urban environmental management of the EcoGov Part 2 project.
The project, which is an initiative of the Philippine government, is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) and implemented in partnership with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and being managed by the Development Alternatives, Inc., (DAI).
The DAI is providing technical assistance to local government units in cities of General Santos, Koronadal, and Davao and provinces of South Cotabato, Saranggani, North Cotabato, and Sultan Kudarat in implementing forest and forestlands management, coastal resource management, and urban environmental management. (Malu Cadelina Manar )
City environment officer Edgar Paalan said the volume of garbage being collected daily at the public market weighed about six tons, almost 30 percent of the total chunk of garbage collected in the city.
This is the reason why there's a need to manage the waste, Paalan said.
The first step, he said, is the segregation of waste into biodegradable, recyclable, and residual.
A biodegradable waste is a type of waste originating from plant or animal sources, which may be broken down by other living organisms. A biodegradable waste can also be composted or used to produce biogas.
A recyclable waste is a type of waste that has the potential to be recycled, including scrap iron, non-ferrous metals, bottles, glass, plastics, and paper.
The dry run, which is to be completed on November 26, includes the clean-up drive within the market and poblacion area, distribution of information materials, posting of solid waste management signages, and actual waste segregation.
The full implementation of the program will be on November 27.
Paalan said with a reinforced solid waste management plan, they hope to convert at least 40 percent of their biodegradable waste into other types.
The city is also set to construct a P5-million wastewater treatment facility intended for the wet market.
Paalan said the market, including the slaughterhouse, releases at least 35 cubic meters of wastewater everyday. This wastewater is discharged at the Nuangan River, one of the longest rivers in the city.
The facility, according to Paalan, has the capacity to convert at least 70 cubic meters of wastewater daily.
City Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco is set to enter into a loan agreement with the Development of the Philippines (DBP) after the City Council grants him an authority to do so.
The City of Kidapawan is only one of the many assisted LGUs in the urban environmental management of the EcoGov Part 2 project.
The project, which is an initiative of the Philippine government, is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) and implemented in partnership with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and being managed by the Development Alternatives, Inc., (DAI).
The DAI is providing technical assistance to local government units in cities of General Santos, Koronadal, and Davao and provinces of South Cotabato, Saranggani, North Cotabato, and Sultan Kudarat in implementing forest and forestlands management, coastal resource management, and urban environmental management. (Malu Cadelina Manar )
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