BROTHERS Navotas City Mayor John Rey Tiangco and Rep. Toby Tiangco, together with other local officials, have witnessed 37 couples tying the knot at the Navotas Sports Complex just recently.
The couples included Nestor Lagunsin, Sr., 56; and Cleotilde Labrador, 66, who have been living together for 33 years. The Tiangco brothers, who have served as their godfathers, have urged the newly-weds to be good role models to their children and help them become responsible citizens.
They’ve been hugely credited for transforming the coastal city into a more progressive and developed locality not only in the national capital region but all over the country and have made the perennial flooding ‘a thing in the past’ after implementing concrete anti-flood control projects like the establishment and maintenance of more pumping stations in strategic areas all over the city.
SKILLED COORDINATION
A suspected Chinese drug lord has been apprehended and killed in Valenzuela City through the skilled coordination employed by both the national and local operatives, Mayor Rex Gatchalian said.
Mayor Gatchalian was all praises for the Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency-Special Enforcement Service, Philippine National Police-Anti-Illegal Drugs Group, Northern Police District, Highway Patrol Group and the local for their aggressive stance to fight illegal drugs which led to the death of alias “Meco Tan,” a shabu laboratory operator.
The Valenzuela mayor says his administration has programs aligned to the operational platforms of the national government to combat illegal drugs.
Vigilance of the constituency against illegal drugs is being increased through programs under the Valenzuela Anti-Drug Abuse Council and the police, according to the city’s Public Information Office.
1,500 PUSHERS, USERS’ GIVE UP TO MALAPITAN
More than 1, 500 individuals have voluntarily submitted themselves to Caloocan Mayor Oca Malapitan and local police, weeks after the city government declared an intensified all-out war versus illegal drugs.
Coming from 70 barangays in the city’s 2nd District, the surrenderees, accompanied by their barangay chiefs, have promised to stop using drugs and help in the government’s campaign against narcotics.
However, Malapitan and S/Supt. Johnson Almazan clarified that surrendering to authorities would not give them an instant clearance from their illegal activities and instead warned them that they won’t hesitate to put them behind bars the moment they receive and verify any information that they went back to their old ways. He also promised to put up a rehabilitation center. GOOD RIDDANCE/ARLIE CALALO
