AND SO, convicted carnapper and drug lord Jaybee Sebastian has expressed to reveal everything he knows about the drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison. Apparently, there is a catch. He would only tell it all to the President of the Philippines. When the press asked Duterte last Friday about Sebastian's demand, Digong immediately rejected the idea.
"I do not talk to criminals," Digong replied to the intention of the high profile inmate to talk personally to the commander-in-chief. PRRD added "He can go to fiscal if he wants." The decision of Jaybee to speak up to President Rodrigo Duterte came in days after he got wounded in the controversial riot in the Maximum Security Compound of the National Penitentiary.
Jaybee Sebastian must be used to talking with high-ranking officials to have the audacity to demand to face the president of the country. Janet Lim Napoles tried the same but she was able to personally meet with then President Noynoy Aquino in the issue on the pork barrel scam. Unfortunately for Jaybee, Digong is not PNoy.
In Angeles City, Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan and the Angeles City Police Office headed by Acting City Director Senior Superintendent Sidney Villaflor are not sleeping on the job when it comes to war on drugs. Pamintuan, in spite of having multiple roles in the national government (being an adviser to the peace panel and being the president of the League of Cities of the Philippines) as he will also be attending the Sulong Pilipinas meeting of all southern and northern local government units, is making sure that the highly urbanized city will be drug-free for two of its barangays have already been declared by PDEA as villages that are free from illegal drugs (Salapungan and Cuayan).
Just last Friday, local authorities seized around 28 kilos of Marijuana packed in brick form which has an estimated street value of almost half a million pesos along a thoroughfare in Barangay Sto. Cristo, transported via tricycle.
The suspect has been arrested and he's in the custody of the local police. According to the station commander of police station 6, the seized marijuana bricks most probably came from the northern part of Luzon and then transported here in the region.
For as long as Digong and Edong are here to lead, prohibited drugs have no place in Angeles City and no place in the Philippines.