{"id":162333,"date":"2018-05-01T03:25:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T07:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=162333"},"modified":"2018-05-01T03:25:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T07:25:19","slug":"bishops-group-supports-release-of-pdea-narco-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/01\/bishops-group-supports-release-of-pdea-narco-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops&#8217; group supports release of PDEA narco list"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8962\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cbcp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8962\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cbcp.jpg\" alt=\"The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Migrant and Itinerant People (CBCP-ECMI) has supported the effort of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in releasing the names of 207 barangay (village) officials reportedly involved in illegal drugs trade in the country. (Photo courtesy of CBCP)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cbcp.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cbcp-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Migrant and Itinerant People (CBCP-ECMI) has supported the effort of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in releasing the names of 207 barangay (village) officials reportedly involved in illegal drugs trade in the country. (Photo courtesy of CBCP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Migrant and Itinerant People (CBCP-ECMI) has supported the effort of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in releasing the names of 207 barangay (village) officials reportedly involved in illegal drugs trade in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Ruperto Santos, CBCP-ECMI chairman, said the electorate needs to know the background of the people who are seeking public office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe in the CBCP-ECMI support the publication of narco-politicians especially those running for Barangay and SK (Sangguniang Kabataan) elections. The public has the right to know and be informed whom they have to vote,\u201d he said in a statement issued on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bataan prelate said that exposing those who are involved in illegal acts would be for the good of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo safeguard our children, to make our future secure and to make our country starting from the Barangay, it is for our common good to expose those narco-politicians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Santos said that as public officials their lives and what they do should be made public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment offices are public services. Government officials for public services and they are also, as we know, public servants. So their lives are public. So what they do should be made public and for the services of their constituents, the public,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Migrant and Itinerant People (CBCP-ECMI) has supported the effort of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":8962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2898,20867],"class_list":["post-162333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-cbcp","tag-narco-list","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162333","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=162333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}