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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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ILOILO City – Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog is looking into the possible liabilities of Barangay Captain Sumakwel Nava of Barangay Libertad, Lapuz district for refusing to submit his Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Council (BADAC) report to the Iloilo City Anti-Illegal Drug Abuse Council (ICADAC).
According to Atty. Mark Piad, Mabilog’s spokesperson, Memorandum Circular 2015-63 of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) mandated BADACs to submit their monthly and quarter reports.
“We will study further the DILG circular. Kon wala s’ya ga-follow directive, iga-pursue naton ina nga possible administrative sanction,” Piad told Panay News.
Mabilog heads the ICADAC.
Sept. 15 was the deadline for all the 180 BADACs to submit their monthly and quarterly reports on illegal drugs.
The BADAC monthly report must contain the status of illegal drug affectation in the barangay as well as the programs and activities undertaken relative to the campaign against illegal drugs.
The quarterly report, on the other hand, is a confidential report on those involved in the trade and use of illegal drugs in the barangay.
According to Iloilo City-DILG chief Atty. Ferdinand Panes yesterday, aside from the BADAC of Barangay Libertad, that of Barangay Jalandoni Estate, Lapuz was not able to submit a report, too.
The Iloilo City-DILG is the secretariat of the ICADAC; it is tasked to receive the confidential and monthly BADAC reports after which it will endorse these to the city mayor. The mayor, in turn, will forward the reports to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
According to Piad, the DILG memo created this submission process “for purposes of monitoring and compliance.”
“But the reports are not opened. These are sealed,” Piad said, and their contents were for PDEA’s consumption alone.
The barangay captain of Jalandoni Estate is Efren Gimeo, an avid supporter of President Rodrigo Duterte. He said in a radio interview he was not rushing to submit their BADAC report because he was making sure its contents were “quality information.”
He said he would rather submit late than submit on time but with half-baked or inaccurate information about his village’s illegal drug situation.
Nava, meanwhile, stated in his letter to Panes that he won’t let Mabilog “use” him.
“For as long as Mabilog is yet to be cleared, there is no cogent reason why should I be part of his stage show [sic],” Nava stressed.
He was referring to President Duterte’s naming Mabilog as a coddler of drug traffickers in Iloilo City.
After Duterte called out Mabilog last month, the mayor became very visible in the campaign against illegal drugs – something not seen in him for years, said Nava.
“Lately, we, the barangay captains are again being ‘pressured’ to submit anew the same list because of the whims and caprices of…Mabilog who is desperately trying to impress [on] the President that he is not a ‘drug protector,’” according to Nava. But “we should not be allowed to be used by Mabilog for his personal interest.”
Mabilog had denied being a protector of drug traffickers.
Nava insisted his BADAC already submitted its report to PDEA “as early as last year.”
He also stressed that his barangay is “strongly [supporting] the antidrug campaign” of the Duterte administration.
“In the meantime,” Nava wrote Panes, “please coordinate with the PDEA for a copy our BADAC report.”
Nava is the father of Councilor Plaridel Nava, an ally-turned-critic of Mabilog./PN
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