CORRUPTION AT DAVAO CITY COUNCIL – Update 4

Dad slams Militar for no-show
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Like Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, senior Davao City councilor Victorio Advincula yesterday urged councilor Bonifacio Militar to support allegations of corruption he leveled against some members of the city council.
This developed as Militar yesterday was a no-show at the city council session, sparking speculations he lost his balls [...]

Philippine military slam rebs for killing Ferrazini

Will the NPA indemnify other victims?
By ROGER M. BALANZA            
Military officials in Davao City yesterday ganged up on the communist New People’s Army which admitted a local businessman was killed by a low-level rebel unit based on “flawed decision.”           
The NPA has apologized for the killing and offered to imdenify relatives of Vicente Ferrazini, [...]

Military reaction to NPA saying sorry in Ferrazini slay

Colonel Benito de Leon, 10th Infantry Division spokesman: The apology issued by the rebel group is an acknowledgement of the atrocity that they have directed against an innocent civilian. The NPA should now submit itself to the police or the courts.
 
Major Rodrigo Sosmena, Eastern Mindanao Command, AFP: This is not the kind of justice that the [...]

MILF: GMA to survive crisis

While staying completely neutral to the on-going internal Filipino political squabbles, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has, however, predicted that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will survive the present scare of her presidency and will finish the rest of her term until 2010. “This is my view after assessing all the minus and plus factors against [...]