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Fear over drug trade proliferation in North Cotabato looms
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COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Members of different municipal peace and order councils in North Cotabato worried on the proliferation of illegal drug trade in the province.
The reaction came after Judge Laureano Alzate of the Regional Trial Court Branch 22 in Kidapawan City released again four more drug traffickers caught “red-handed” in different buy-bust dragnets from 2003 to 2006.
Alzate has ordered the dismissal, in the past four months, of more than a dozen drug trafficking cases against detained notorious drug peddlers.
Records indicated that the freed suspects were arrested in buy-bust deals carried out after thorough surveillance on the illegal activities.
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Police detonate bomb left in North Cotabato Park
1MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato, Philippines—An vigilant civilian prevented what could have been a deadly explosion Thursday when he alerted the police to an improvised explosive device left at the plaza here.
Chief Superintendent Felicissimu Khu, head of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operations in Western Mindanao, said the IED, fashioned from a 60-millimeter mortar shell fitted with a mobile phone as trigger mechanism, was left at a corner of the plaza, near the Midsayap Central Pilot Elementary School.
The town plaza of Midsayap is not normally crowded at that time of night but there were some people there when the bomb was discovered around 11:30 p.m., Khu said.
Khu said the man, suspicious of the bag, peeked into it and called the police immediately after he saw a bomb was inside.
Responding police and Army bomb experts later detonated the bomb.
Khu said the IED was similar to other IEDs planted by lawless elements in Central Mindanao the past months but he declined to speculate on the motive or the identities of the people behind it. Inquirer.net tagaAmerica.com
Hot lumber seized in North Cotabato town
0KIDAPAWAN CITY — Authorities confiscated a truck loaded with some 5,000 board feet of illegally-cut wood during a highway inspection in Kabacan town in North Cotabato, police said.
In a belated report, Supt. Joseph Semillano, Kabacan police chief, said the truck driven by Ramil Enpuesto, 31, was intercepted around 9:00 p.m. Wednesday along Barangay Osias, Kabacan, while on its way to General Santos City.
The seized lumber were those from Mango and Acacia trees.
Semillano said Enpuesto failed to present to them documents from the local Community Environment and Natural Resources (CENRO) that would attest his transporting of the cargo.
According to the police official, the cargo papers were signed by a CENRO official from nearby Midsayap town and not from Kabacan.
Semillano further divulged that the seized lumber were cut from the lot owned by 59-year-old Ulangan Masukat in Barangay Nabundas, Pikit town, also in North Cotabato.
Authorities placed under their custody Enpuesto and truck helpers identified as Maguid Wahab, 44, of Pikit; and Jerry Yubak of General Santos City .
The truck and its cargo were turned over to CENRO in Midsayap pending deeper investigation. (PNA) ZamboTimes
North Cotabato to build BFP office & substation
0MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato — The North Cotabato Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) will soon have its own building at the provincial capitol ground in Barangay Amas, Kidapawan City, North Cotabato.
The provincial government will put up the Provincial Fire Office/Fire Substation building aimed at making the unit very responsive to emergencies.
North Cotabato Governor Emmylou Lala Mendoza led the groundbreaking ceremony along with Fire Chief Insp. Romeo Tactaquin, North Cotabato provincial fire marshal, for the construction of the new structure at a government-owned lot with an area of more than 3,000 square meters.
Tactaquin is very grateful to Governor Mendoza and other provincial officials. He also expressed appreciation to the people who helped and will be helping the fire unit in implementing its programs in the future, assuring that they will deliver “Serbisyong Totoo” to Cotabatenios, especially in administering emergency and rescue operations.
Senior Supt. Alejandro Cagambang, BFP-12 regional director, also expressed gratitude to Mendoza and the provincial board for providing an area and a supplemental budget of P2 million for the fire unit’s building.
The site where the building will be erected is presently occupied by informal settlers.
Mendoza has ordered the relocation of the informal settlers to a site where there are basic facilities like water and electricity. (PNA) ZamboTimes
Report: Explosive device found near school in north Cotabato
0An improvised explosive device (IED) was found near a school in Midsayap town in North Cotabato province Thursday night.
The IED was recovered around 10:45 p.m. across the Midsayap Central Elementary School, according to a report Friday on Radyo Mo Nationwide (RMN).
RMN quoted Midsayap deputy police head Inspector Enilo Galilea as saying the IED was also positioned near the municipal plaza.
Police suspect the motive for putting the IED there was more to instill fear among residents, the RMN report added.
An initial investigation showed the IED was made from a 60-mm mortar and was wired to a nine-volt battery, with a cellular phone as the triggering device.
The RMN report said an Explosives and Ordnance team conducted a controlled detonation of the device. — LBG, GMA News
