(This item appears in today's edition of the Leyte-Samar Daily Express)
Tacloban City - The outgoing mayor of Calbayog City, Mel Senen Sarmiento, has asked for the immediate return of the 52 policemen from the city who were removed from their assignments during the recently-held elections.
Sarmiento, in a talk with the employees of the city government after the flag-raising ceremonies at the City Hall grounds yesterday, admitted that he was hurt and felt insulted when the regional headquarters of the Philippine National Police pulled out practically the entire city police force.
Worse, the checkpoints were established in the area where he lives, Sarmiento, who won as a congressman representing Samar's first congressional district, said in his extemporaneous speech, a voice copy of which was provided to Leyte Samar Daily Express.
"I could not understand what the professionalism of the Philippine National Police is all about? I'm somewhat lost . . a level of respect to the leadership of the PNP (here in the region)," Sarmiento said.
The city mayor said that if indeed the regional leadership of the PNP was true to its mandate of ensuring peaceful elections in Calbayog, "They should have leveled the playing fields."
Sarmiento could be alluding to the perceptions that the PNP in the region were favoring other candidates to the disadvantage of other candidates like himself.
The city has been earlier identified by the PNP as one of the "areas of concern" during the elections.
Sarmiento, who is also the incumbent chair of the Regional Development Council, said that he would sit down with the officials of the Department of the Interior and Local Government for the immediate return of the city policemen.
Sarmiento said that 52 policemen from Calbayog city police station were relieved from their respective posts, led by then city police chief, Superintendent Lito Bigoy, days before the conduct if the May 10 elections.
these policemen were reassigned to the regional PNP headquarters for their alleged political partisanship. They have yet to return to their old posts in Cabayog City.
Sarmiento also said that the alleged partisanship among the policemen of Calbayog City, which was used as the basis for their transfer, has to be proven first by the PNP regional; headquarters before they were sacked from their posts.
He said that being natives of the city, the possibility that these sacked policemen could have relatives or friends seeking elective posts during the May 10 elections was not remote.
"We're all from Calbayog. We're all friends. Just because they are form here, they were removed even without authority from the Commission on Elections," Sarmiento said.
He also said that as the chief executive of the city, he should have been provided with a list of who would be Calbayog's chief of police.
Sarmiento also said that since he became a mayor, all the requests of the police organization were granted by him, including paper and gasoline supplies. (JOEY A. GABIETA)
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Fireams confiscated during the PNP raid at the Happy Valley area
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Alleged leader of partisan armed group killed in shoot out with police
(This news report appears in today's edition of the Leyte-Samar Daily Express)
CALBAYOG CITY- An alleged leader of a partisan armed group operating in Calbayog City was killed in a shoot out Sunday morning as 20 of his members were also apprehended.
Killed was Michael Tirga who died on the spot due to a bullet wound he sustained at his left breast, Superintendent Ramil Ramirez, police chief of Calbayog, said.
Tirga has a standing warrant of arrest for murder issued by Judge Manuel Torrevillas, Jr, presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 32 issued on January 30, 2009, Ramirez said.
“But based on the intelligence reports that we have gathered, he was the leader of a partisan armed group identified with a local politician,” Ramirez said.
He declined to identify any local politician who is supporting the group of Tirga.
The presence of Tirga in the area, some 12 kms away from the city proper of Calbayog, was through the information of their intelligence assets, the city police chief said.
During the serving of the warrant, Tirga managed to engage the members of the RMG in a shoot out that also resulted to the injury of one PO1 Ablinga, Ramirez said. The police officer was wounded on his left arms and was rushed to the Our Lady of Porciuncula Hospital, Inc. in Calbayog City.
On the same day, the members of the RMG also conducted simultaneous operations against identified members of the group of Tirga in the villages of Sinantan, Navarro, Patong, Hibatang and Rawis, some of Calbayog’s remotest villages.
The operations in those barangays resulted to the arrest of 20 men, two of them were of minor ages.
Some of these arrested men have standing warrants of arrest for murder and illegal logging, Ramirez said.
All are now detained at the city police jail while the two minors were brought to the city social welfare office.
Ramirez said that the arrests of those men also netted for the discovery and confiscation of assorted firearms at their respective houses.
But one of those arrested, Jesus Jalayajay, denied that he was a member of the any partisan armed group.
“I am just an ordinary farmer. That is why, I was surprised that they arrested us,” the 37- year- old Jalayahay said.
Meantime, both Samar Rep. Reynaldo Uy and Mayor Mel Senen Sarmiento commended successful operations of the police authorities, saying this will help achieve the goal of the Commission on Elections of peaceful and orderly elections.
“I am commending the operations of the RMG which resulted to the neutralization of this armed group. This will really help us in having peaceful and orderly elections,” Uy said.
“I grew up with a family of priests. (And) we have been fighting for peace ( in our area), he said. (JOEY A. GABIETA)
CALBAYOG CITY- An alleged leader of a partisan armed group operating in Calbayog City was killed in a shoot out Sunday morning as 20 of his members were also apprehended.
Killed was Michael Tirga who died on the spot due to a bullet wound he sustained at his left breast, Superintendent Ramil Ramirez, police chief of Calbayog, said.
Tirga has a standing warrant of arrest for murder issued by Judge Manuel Torrevillas, Jr, presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 32 issued on January 30, 2009, Ramirez said.
“But based on the intelligence reports that we have gathered, he was the leader of a partisan armed group identified with a local politician,” Ramirez said.
He declined to identify any local politician who is supporting the group of Tirga.
The presence of Tirga in the area, some 12 kms away from the city proper of Calbayog, was through the information of their intelligence assets, the city police chief said.
During the serving of the warrant, Tirga managed to engage the members of the RMG in a shoot out that also resulted to the injury of one PO1 Ablinga, Ramirez said. The police officer was wounded on his left arms and was rushed to the Our Lady of Porciuncula Hospital, Inc. in Calbayog City.
On the same day, the members of the RMG also conducted simultaneous operations against identified members of the group of Tirga in the villages of Sinantan, Navarro, Patong, Hibatang and Rawis, some of Calbayog’s remotest villages.
The operations in those barangays resulted to the arrest of 20 men, two of them were of minor ages.
Some of these arrested men have standing warrants of arrest for murder and illegal logging, Ramirez said.
All are now detained at the city police jail while the two minors were brought to the city social welfare office.
Ramirez said that the arrests of those men also netted for the discovery and confiscation of assorted firearms at their respective houses.
But one of those arrested, Jesus Jalayajay, denied that he was a member of the any partisan armed group.
“I am just an ordinary farmer. That is why, I was surprised that they arrested us,” the 37- year- old Jalayahay said.
Meantime, both Samar Rep. Reynaldo Uy and Mayor Mel Senen Sarmiento commended successful operations of the police authorities, saying this will help achieve the goal of the Commission on Elections of peaceful and orderly elections.
“I am commending the operations of the RMG which resulted to the neutralization of this armed group. This will really help us in having peaceful and orderly elections,” Uy said.
“I grew up with a family of priests. (And) we have been fighting for peace ( in our area), he said. (JOEY A. GABIETA)
Monday, December 14, 2009
NwSSU formally inaugurated
(This news item appeas in today's edition of the Leyte-Samar Daily Express)
TACLOBAN CITY - The second state university in Samar province was formally inaugurated yesterday with no less than the chairperson of the Commission on Higher Education, Secretary Emmanuel Angeles, leading the occasion.
Among the highlights of the inauguration of the Northwest Samar State University was the installation of its first state university president, Dr. Socorro Bohol.
Those who witnessed the elevation of the then Tiburcio Tancinco Memorial Institute of Science and Technology (TTMIST) into a state university was Samar Representative Reynaldo Uy who shepherd for the passage of a law creating the second state university in Samar province.
The province’s first state university was the Samar State University in Catbalogan.
Aside from Angeles and Uy, those who witnessed the milestone were Calbayog city officials led by Mayor Mel Senen Sarmiento and Vice Mayor Ronaldo Aquino, state university presidents in the region and members of the NwSSU board of regents that includes Regional Director Buenaventura Go-Soco of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
In his message, Uy said that his happiness over the conversion of the TTMIST into a state university was a fulfillment not only for himself but the entire people of Calbayog and Samar province.
"Being now a university, more challenges and bigger tasks lie ahead for NwSSU. All these in the name of extending better service to our constituents, of extending quality education for everyone. With our cooperation and dedication, capacity and integrity of our friends from the NwSSU, there is no doubt that we will succeed", the Samar solon said.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed into law the creation of the NwSSU last October 14 as contained under Republic Act 9717.
Mayor Sarmiento said that the inauguration of the NwSSU was a “step towards the path which leads us to extending quality education to the students of Calbayog and of Samar.”
“And I call on the NwSSU to do their share in achieving that,” he said, reminding the university’s officials and educators.
At present, the NwSSU has a total student population of 4,800 who are enrolled to its 35 courses which include education, engineering, hotel and restaurant, and Graduate studies.
The new university has about 105 regular teachers with another 60 working as part time teachers.
The first president of the NwSSU, meantime, vowed to provide quality education to the people of Samar province.
“With confidence, we look forward the challenge of the ideals that lie ahead. With confidence, we look forward to being able to achieve and perform the state universities and colleges mandates along instruction, research, extension and production, all in the name of relevant quality education,” she said.
The then Tiburcio Tancinco Memorial Institute of Science and Technology started as a vocational school way back until it was elevated into a tertiary level offering various courses. It was named after a former member of Congress. (JOEY A. GABIETA/LITO ABALA BAGUNAS)
TACLOBAN CITY - The second state university in Samar province was formally inaugurated yesterday with no less than the chairperson of the Commission on Higher Education, Secretary Emmanuel Angeles, leading the occasion.
Among the highlights of the inauguration of the Northwest Samar State University was the installation of its first state university president, Dr. Socorro Bohol.
Those who witnessed the elevation of the then Tiburcio Tancinco Memorial Institute of Science and Technology (TTMIST) into a state university was Samar Representative Reynaldo Uy who shepherd for the passage of a law creating the second state university in Samar province.
The province’s first state university was the Samar State University in Catbalogan.
Aside from Angeles and Uy, those who witnessed the milestone were Calbayog city officials led by Mayor Mel Senen Sarmiento and Vice Mayor Ronaldo Aquino, state university presidents in the region and members of the NwSSU board of regents that includes Regional Director Buenaventura Go-Soco of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
In his message, Uy said that his happiness over the conversion of the TTMIST into a state university was a fulfillment not only for himself but the entire people of Calbayog and Samar province.
"Being now a university, more challenges and bigger tasks lie ahead for NwSSU. All these in the name of extending better service to our constituents, of extending quality education for everyone. With our cooperation and dedication, capacity and integrity of our friends from the NwSSU, there is no doubt that we will succeed", the Samar solon said.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed into law the creation of the NwSSU last October 14 as contained under Republic Act 9717.
Mayor Sarmiento said that the inauguration of the NwSSU was a “step towards the path which leads us to extending quality education to the students of Calbayog and of Samar.”
“And I call on the NwSSU to do their share in achieving that,” he said, reminding the university’s officials and educators.
At present, the NwSSU has a total student population of 4,800 who are enrolled to its 35 courses which include education, engineering, hotel and restaurant, and Graduate studies.
The new university has about 105 regular teachers with another 60 working as part time teachers.
The first president of the NwSSU, meantime, vowed to provide quality education to the people of Samar province.
“With confidence, we look forward the challenge of the ideals that lie ahead. With confidence, we look forward to being able to achieve and perform the state universities and colleges mandates along instruction, research, extension and production, all in the name of relevant quality education,” she said.
The then Tiburcio Tancinco Memorial Institute of Science and Technology started as a vocational school way back until it was elevated into a tertiary level offering various courses. It was named after a former member of Congress. (JOEY A. GABIETA/LITO ABALA BAGUNAS)
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sarmiento runs for Congress; Uy for Calbayog City mayor
(This news item appears in today's edition of the Leyte-Samar Daily Express)
TACLOBAN CITY — Samar outgoing Representative Reynaldo Uy and Mayor Mel Senen Sarmiento of Calbayog are to swap positions as both have filed their respective certificates of candidacy for mayor and congressman, respectively, before the local Commission on Elections.
Sarmiento’s bid to become the next congressional representative of Samar’s first district came at a time when the Comelec en banc has dismissed the electoral protest filed against him by a former political adversary, Rodolfo Tuazon, who contested the results of the 2007 mayoralty race.
Uy, who is serving his third and last term as a congressman, filed his certificate of candidacy for mayor of Calbayog City on Saturday around 10 a.m. together with his complete line up headed by his running mate, incumbent Vice Mayor Ronaldo Aquino.
Uy, who already served as mayor of the lone city of Samar province, is running under the ticket of the Liberal Party-Lakas-Kampi- CMD.
Sarmiento, meantime, filed his own certificate of candidacy before the provincial Comelec office based in Catbalogan, the provincial capital, together with his gubernatorial candidate, Casilda Lim, an incumbent board member.
But while Sarmiento is running under the ticket of Liberal Party, the gubernatorial candidate belongs to the Nationalist People’s Coalition.
The outgoing Calbayog City mayor filed his certificate of candidacy Saturday around 2 p.m. before elections provincial supervisor Ma. Corazon Montallana. His close political ally, Rep. Uy, also witnessed the filing of his CoC, Ronald Ricafort, a close aide of Mayor Sarmiento, said over the phone.
“They were in jovial mood all throughout,” Ricafort said.
Among those who will be running for provincial board members under the lineup of Sarmiento and who filed their CoCs were Renato Uy, Jasper Sumagang, Prudencio Dy, Jr., Noel Sermense and Charlie Conejos.
Meantime, those who will be running for council seats of Calbayog, which is divided into two districts, under the ticket of Uy were Susano Salurio, Arturo Pasacas, Virgil Clemens, Jonas Montealto, Regina Rabuya, Julius Mancol, Danilo Bernate, Ver Porlares and Roger Casurao, an incumbent board member.
Also part of the line up were Rey James and Raymund Uy, son and nephew of Rep. Uy, respectively, and Mark Aquino, nephew of the vice mayor.
It was learned from Ricafort that before Uy filed his certificate of candidacy, he and his team attended first a Holy Mass at the Poor Claire Monastery with Father Bloyd Guiuan as the presiding priest.
Meantime, Sarmiento, who is on his third and final term as mayor of Calbayog, won the electoral protest filed against him.
In an en banc decision issued by the Comelec earlier this month, the commissioners, voting seven against two, junked the petition of rival Rodolfo Tuazon.
Based on the 2,977-page Comelec decision, Sarmiento garnered a total vote cast of 32, 259 against Tuazon’s 28,530 votes or a difference of 3,729 votes.
“Though the decision came rather late, the mayor was very happy that he won on this electoral protest against him,” Ricafort said. (By JOEY A. GABIETA, Staff writer)
TACLOBAN CITY — Samar outgoing Representative Reynaldo Uy and Mayor Mel Senen Sarmiento of Calbayog are to swap positions as both have filed their respective certificates of candidacy for mayor and congressman, respectively, before the local Commission on Elections.
Sarmiento’s bid to become the next congressional representative of Samar’s first district came at a time when the Comelec en banc has dismissed the electoral protest filed against him by a former political adversary, Rodolfo Tuazon, who contested the results of the 2007 mayoralty race.
Uy, who is serving his third and last term as a congressman, filed his certificate of candidacy for mayor of Calbayog City on Saturday around 10 a.m. together with his complete line up headed by his running mate, incumbent Vice Mayor Ronaldo Aquino.
Uy, who already served as mayor of the lone city of Samar province, is running under the ticket of the Liberal Party-Lakas-Kampi- CMD.
Sarmiento, meantime, filed his own certificate of candidacy before the provincial Comelec office based in Catbalogan, the provincial capital, together with his gubernatorial candidate, Casilda Lim, an incumbent board member.
But while Sarmiento is running under the ticket of Liberal Party, the gubernatorial candidate belongs to the Nationalist People’s Coalition.
The outgoing Calbayog City mayor filed his certificate of candidacy Saturday around 2 p.m. before elections provincial supervisor Ma. Corazon Montallana. His close political ally, Rep. Uy, also witnessed the filing of his CoC, Ronald Ricafort, a close aide of Mayor Sarmiento, said over the phone.
“They were in jovial mood all throughout,” Ricafort said.
Among those who will be running for provincial board members under the lineup of Sarmiento and who filed their CoCs were Renato Uy, Jasper Sumagang, Prudencio Dy, Jr., Noel Sermense and Charlie Conejos.
Meantime, those who will be running for council seats of Calbayog, which is divided into two districts, under the ticket of Uy were Susano Salurio, Arturo Pasacas, Virgil Clemens, Jonas Montealto, Regina Rabuya, Julius Mancol, Danilo Bernate, Ver Porlares and Roger Casurao, an incumbent board member.
Also part of the line up were Rey James and Raymund Uy, son and nephew of Rep. Uy, respectively, and Mark Aquino, nephew of the vice mayor.
It was learned from Ricafort that before Uy filed his certificate of candidacy, he and his team attended first a Holy Mass at the Poor Claire Monastery with Father Bloyd Guiuan as the presiding priest.
Meantime, Sarmiento, who is on his third and final term as mayor of Calbayog, won the electoral protest filed against him.
In an en banc decision issued by the Comelec earlier this month, the commissioners, voting seven against two, junked the petition of rival Rodolfo Tuazon.
Based on the 2,977-page Comelec decision, Sarmiento garnered a total vote cast of 32, 259 against Tuazon’s 28,530 votes or a difference of 3,729 votes.
“Though the decision came rather late, the mayor was very happy that he won on this electoral protest against him,” Ricafort said. (By JOEY A. GABIETA, Staff writer)
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