{"id":122302,"date":"2017-10-09T03:24:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122302"},"modified":"2017-10-09T03:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:24:30","slug":"arrest-of-town-mayor-proves-narco-politics-deep-hold-on-ph-abella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/09\/arrest-of-town-mayor-proves-narco-politics-deep-hold-on-ph-abella\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of town mayor proves narco-politics\u2019 deep hold on PH: Abella"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104943\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ernesto-Abella-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104943\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ernesto-Abella-1.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella. (PCOO photo)\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ernesto-Abella-1.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ernesto-Abella-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ernesto-Abella-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ernesto-Abella-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pcoo.gov.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/May-29-2017-050917JARL01-1.jpg\">Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella. (PCOO photo)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The surrender of a mayor in Sarangani Province underscores how deeply entrenched narco-politics is in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe raid by PDEA operatives of the rest house of the Maasim mayor\u2026 proves the administration\u2019s claim that illegal drugs and corruption have captured local politics,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte had earlier bared the link between illegal drugs and terrorism, showing reporters a matrix of alleged drug lords, dealers, and narco-politicians who provided support to the Maute Group which had taken hold of Marawi City.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) raided the rest house of Maasim, Sarangani Mayor Aniceto Lopez Jr. on October 6, 2017 and found PHP5 million worth of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride (locally known as shabu) and a mini-shabu laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez was not in his rest house during the raid but he surrendered hours later to Senator Emmanuel \u201cManny\u201d Pacquiao, who then turned him over to PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino in General Santos City.<\/p>\n<p>As this developed, Abella called on the public to continue supporting the government\u2019s campaign to eliminate illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProgress against illegal drugs largely depends on the full support and cooperation of everyone, from the citizens to the church and communities,\u201d Abella said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The surrender of a mayor in Sarangani Province underscores how deeply entrenched narco-politics is in the Philippines. \u201cThe raid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[26742,26743,18680,13135,21431],"class_list":["post-122302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-arrest-of-town-mayor-proves-narco-politics-deep-hold-on-ph-abella","tag-narco-politics","tag-philippine-drug-enforcement-agency-pdea","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-sarangani-province","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}