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KIDAPAWAN CITY – Almost a hundred self-confessed drug dependents underwent profiling from the city social welfare office to determine the help the government could extend to them under a special project dubbed as Balik Pangarap.” City Mayor Joseph Evangelista has tasked the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) to get the family background, educational attainment, and other basic details of drug users who are willing to ‘change’ and eventually, ‘recover’ from their addiction. We now call them, ‘recovering addicts’,” said the mayor.

MARAWI CITY --- Siblings Solitario Ali and Fahad Salic are optimistic President Rodrigo Duterte will have his list of top drug suspects in the country revalidated, insinuating their names have wrongly been included in his roster of offenders.

DAVAO CITY ---
Amid calls on safety in playing the phenomenal new app in android and IOS smart
phones, Pokemon Go was Saturday day in the Philippines and save the life of a
man believed to have suffered from heat stroke.

Bon Vallite, 29, a
native of Lebak in Sultan Kudarat province and worked as computer consultant in
Davao City, was playing his Pokemon Go around 2:45 Saturday afternoon in front
of Seda hotel in Davao City when he saw a man vomiting blood and was in delicate
situation.

COTABATO CITY – Mayor Montasir Sabal of Talitay, Maguindanao and Mayor Rasul Sangki of
Ampatuan, Maguindanao have separately denied allegations they were drug lords.

Sangki and Sabal were
both named by President Duterte as narco-politicians during his Sunday dawn
news conference in Davao City.Six others officials from Maguindanaowere also named.Sabal has repeatedly
denied he was a drug lord but admitted, in several media interviews, that he
was once into it.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The regional health secretary in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has sought the help of two of the country’s most influential officials – the President and the director general of the Philippine National Police (PNP), to look into the attempt on the life of his elder brother who works as instructor in a state-run college in North Cotabato.DOH-ARMM secretary Dr. Kadil Sinolinding claimed the attack on the life of his elder brother, Dr.

President Rodrigo Duterte named politicians, members of the judiciary and law enforcers involved in illegal drug trade.Duterte’s list includes mayors, congressmen, judges, police and the military.

KORONADAL CITY
(Aug. 6) – A magnitude 5.4 earthquake hit Gen. Santos City and South Cotabato
Saturday but state volcanologists reported no casualties or damages to
properties.

In a statement sent to DXOM-AM Radyo Bida, the Philippine
Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the quake which came at
5:08 p.m. was tectonic in origin and traced 15 kilometers east of Gen. Santos
City and a depth of 24 kilometers.

CARMEN, North
Cotabato -– True to its earlier commitment, the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF) made good its promise to help eradication drug addiction in areas
where it operates.

In a statement
on Saturday, the MILF Easter Mindanao Command said its forces raided three
marijuana plantations in Sitio Sinipitan, Barangay Tupig, Carmen, North
Cotabato.

But the
plantation owners were nowhere to be found as the area was isolated from
communities.

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KIDAPAWAN CITY – Disaster and risk reduction officials here, led by the city’s chief executive, hasembarked on a state-of-the-art computer system, which will monitor how quick their responses would be to any man-made or natural calamities.City Mayor Joseph Evangelista, chair of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDDRM), said the upgraded computer system of their Emergency or Call 911 will help improve their response time to any disaster or calamity.Also, residents of the city and from nearby towns in North Cotabato province would be able to access the mobile responde