NATIONAL shooting champion Nathaniel ‘Tac’ Padilla, Malabon’s Barangay San Agustin chairman, and his own nephew Ex-O ‘Chimme’ led recently members of the local anti-drugs unit and the village’s action team in catching a man said to be one of the city’s elusive and ‘notorious’ drug pushers.
‘Kap’ Padilla, who hails the efforts of the anti-narcotics operatives and barangay’s action team led by ‘Chimme’ in the successful buy-bust operation, couldn’t hide his happiness over the arrest of local resident Oliver Ventura, 49.
“Finally, he fell into the hands of law. He must be lucky that he’s arrested and jailed because we’ve got reports that there are people who after his head because of his alleged illegal drug activities,” he tells this writer.
Ventura was collared immediately after he handed over a transparent plastic sachet which contained shabu to a poseur buyer in exchange for P500 cash laced with ultra-violet powder.
When bodily frisked, the suspect yielded seven more plastic sachets containing the illegal drugs, according to Chief Insp. Timothy Aniway, Jr., anti-illegal drugs/special operation task group commander. He says the sting operation was immediately conducted after Tac and Chimme coordinated with his unit regarding the suspect’s illegal drug trade.
Tac, the country’s pride for being an international shooting champion, has expressed a sigh of relief over the arrest of the suspect who has reportedly eluded several entrapment operations and been responsible for the proliferation of illegal drugs in the barangay and even neighboring villages. Hail the partnership of Uncle and Nephew!
NO NEW TAX INCREASE IN NAVOTAS CITY
The Navotas City government will further step up its revenue collection rather than imposing any tax increase saying it didn’t want the local businesses and residents to suffer, Mayor John Rey Tiangco says.
Nevertheless, the mayor is appealing to the local folks and traders to do their share in helping their city by regularly paying their tax obligations and avoid penalties. “There are still a lot of delinquent taxpayers in the city and I am taking this opportunity to urge them to pay their taxes religiously and promptly since the city government is not inclined to impose any new round of tax increase,” he says.
He adds: “My administration would not want to be part of any suffering of every constituent in the city and imposing new tax increase is not a good idea. Mahirap pigain ang residente.”
The youthful mayor says his administration is now more preoccupied in intensifying revenue collection as it’s found to be more effective than imposing new tax hike and, and in doing so, attracting more and big businessmen to invest in the city.
Instead, Mayor Tiangco says the city government is keen on imposing new tax increase on the industrial sector but concerned authorities are still in the process of evaluating and assessing as to the amount, among other things, as mandated by the Department of Finance. There you go. GOOD RIDDANCE/ARLIE CALALO