After tagging the hometown of the President as the \u201cmost dangerous city in the Philippines,” the local officials of Davao City have declared opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes as persona non grata.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not need you here in Davao City. You are unwelcome and unwanted in our city of Davao,” Vice Mayor Bernard Al-Ag said in a privilege speech\u00a0on Tuesday<\/span>.<\/p>\n Al-ag also said that Trillanes\u2019 continuous efforts in putting the city and the chief executive in a bad light will never succeed.<\/p>\n It can be recalled that Trillanes said in a 2017 media briefing that \u201cDavao City is not a paradise, contrary to what they tell proudly. Is there peace and order there? There\u2019s none.\u00a0It is one of the most dangerous places in the country.”<\/p>\n “Mr. Trillanes, you will not succeed in destroying our city. You will not succeed in destroying our beloved President Rodrigo Duterte,\u201d Ag-ag said.<\/p>\n In response to Davao City\u2019s move, an unfazed Trillanes\u00a0said that his remarks were based on the Philippine National Police\u2019s (PNP) statistics which stated that Davao City has the \u201chighest incidence of murder and second highest in rape.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe people of Davao either know it but tolerate it out of fear or they\u2019ve actually believed the lie that was fed to them that Davao City is the safest city in the world,\u201d the senator added.<\/p>\n Aside from Trillanes, Filipino-American businesswoman Loida Nicolas-Lewis was also declared \u201cpersona non grata\u201d in Davao City.<\/p>\n Despite his persona non grata status, Trillanes is not barred from entering the city.<\/p>\n (DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 02\/ 13 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After tagging the hometown of the President as the \u201cmost dangerous city in the Philippines,” the local officials of Davao …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46517,46516,2444,7450],"class_list":["post-152616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-bernard-al-ag","tag-loida-nicolas-lewis","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-persona-non-grata","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152616","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=152616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}