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SWD ensures assistance to families
affected by Mayon volcano eruptions
QUEZON
CITY
--
The
Department of Social Welfare
and Development (DSWD) is
exerting all efforts and working
24/7 to ensure that families
affected by the series eruptions
of Mayon Volcano will receive
assistance.

DSWD
Officer-in-
Charge (OIC) Emmanuel A.
Leyco said that the agency
through its Field Office 5 is
focused on its efforts to assist
local government units (LGUs)
in meeting the needs of displaced
residents.
“Based
on
our
consultations with DSWD FO
5, we have enough provisions
to augment the supplies we
prepositioned with the LGUs. A
daily monitoring of said supplies
are being done to ensure that we
can immediately send from our
warehouses in Pasay and Cebu,”
Leyco said.
Yesterday,
DSWD
Family Food Packs (FFPs)
containing six kilos of rice, four
cans of sardines, four cans of
corned beef, and six packs of
coffee were distributed by the
provincial action teams of Albay
to families of Barangay Matanag,
Legazpi City who are currently
staying in Albay Central School
and to evacuees at Buraguis
Elementary School, also in
Legazpi.

DSWD dignity kits
were also distributed this week to
evacuees at Budiao Elementary
School in the Municipality of
Bacacay and to families staying
at Anoling Elementary School in
Camalig, Albay.

Each
dignity
kit
contains bath soap, detergent bar,
toothbrushes, combs, alcohol, a
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Army officials attempt to clear
Palparan in Cadapan-Empeño

In all of their testimonies,
abduction
the military officials attempted to
“This 2018, we hope that the
case against Palparan be finally
resolved soon. The case has been
running since 2014, and it has
been a long ordeal for us and all
of Palparan’s victims. We want to
see him in jail this year.”
By RUTH LUMIBAO
MALOLOS, BULACAN – Three
years, three witnesses, three
general denials.

The Regional Trial
Court of Malolos was, once
again, packed with about 30
riot police, an Army bus, two
military jeepneys, and a handful
of armed uniformed personnel —
all brought to guard former Maj.
Gen. Jovito Palparan during the
January 11 hearing.

Early in the trial stage,
Palparan claimed that he could
present about 40 witnesses to
prove his non-involvement in
the abduction of two students of
the University of the Philippines:
Karen Empeño and Sherlyn
Cadapan.
Proceeding
with
the presentation of evidence,
Palparan
presented
three
witnesses: Colonel Segundo S.
Metran, Staff Sergeant Edgardo
Osorio, and Lieutenant Colonel
Felipe Anotado.
deny Palparan’s participation in
the crime.

The case has been
ongoing since 2014. (Click here
for more stories.)
Who’s who?

Sherlyn and Karen’s
abduction was allegedly carried
out by the 24th Infantry Battalion
(IB), then under the command of
Lt. Col. Felipe Anotado.

The 24th IB is under
the 7th Infantry Division (ID)
of the Armed forces of the
Philippines (AFP). At the time
of the abduction, Palparan was
commanding officer of the 7th ID,
specifically created by the AFP to
suppress insurgents, specifically
the New People’s Army (NPA).

At the time of the
abduction, Metran was Deputy
Commander of the 24th IB, whose
task involved keeping track of the
operations and plans of the “G3”
team of the said battalion.

When asked, however,
if he knew the whereabouts of
Lt. Col. Anotado, then he claimed
that it was “not part of his job
description” to keep track of
Anotado’s physical presence
within the premises of the 24th IB
and that he would not have known
if Anotado, by any chance, met
with Palparan that time to discuss
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DSWD officer-in-charge (OIC) Emmanuel Leyco visited Albay and interacts with children at the Buraguis Elementary School, also in
Legazpi during his visit to ensure of food packs are distributed properly to evacuees. (Photo courtesy of DSWD)
‘Illegal arrest of NDFP peace consultant
follows an unbelievably bad script’
“He is a publicly known person
involved in advancing the peace
process.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
MANILA – “The incredible
circumstances surrounding the
illegal arrest of 69-year old
Rafael Baylosis, as related by
the police, follow an utterly
bad script that it won’t pass
even for cheap comics.” This
is how lawyer Rachel Pastores
of the Public Interest Law
Center (PILC) described the
police story of the events that
supposedly led to the arrest of
Baylosis and his companion
afternoon of January 31.

Baylosis was arrested
without a warrant on January
31 in Quezon City. The police
claimed he and his companions
were carrying illegal firearms.
Later, the police added that there
was a grenade “associated” with
his brown rice, an accusation
which Rafael Baylosis’ wife,
Lou, vehemently denied. She
has just given him that rice
that afternoon. “I will not put a
grenade in my husband’s rice.”

Worse, according to
Pastores, there are “hallmarks
of perjury” in the pol