{"id":191617,"date":"2018-11-29T03:13:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T08:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=191617"},"modified":"2018-11-29T03:13:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T08:13:20","slug":"duterte-wants-espenido-back-in-ozamiz-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/29\/duterte-wants-espenido-back-in-ozamiz-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte wants Espenido back in Ozamiz City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during the inauguration of the Cavite Gateway Terminal in Tanza, Cavite on November 22, 2018. TOTO LOZANO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Wednesday said he wants Chief Insp. Jovie Espenido back in Ozamiz City, Misamis Oriental.<\/p>\n

During the groundbreaking ceremony of the Ozamiz Airport Modernization Project in Ozamiz City, Duterte asked the crowd if they wanted Espenido back.<\/p>\n

\u201cGusto niyong balik si<\/em>\u00a0Espenido (Do you want Espenido reinstated here)?\u201d Duterte asked the crowd, who cheered and applauded in response.<\/p>\n

Espenido is currently assigned in Calbayog City, Samar. Prior to that, he was also assigned as chief of police in Virac, Catanduanes.<\/p>\n

In the middle of his speech, Duterte called Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Director General Oscar Albayalde, to bring Espenido back to Ozamiz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll make Espenido go back here as well as the other police who are really very foolish,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

Duterte said he would also commission Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to ask Espenido to return.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will commission Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to ask Espenido. When Espenido comes back, I\u2019ll tell him, \u2018Scrape this place clean,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Espenido was the chief of police in Albuera, Leyte when the town’s then Mayor Rolando Espinosa, a drug suspect, was shot dead inside the sub-provincial jail in Baybay City.<\/p>\n

He was transferred to Ozamiz the following year, wherein then Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog and 14 others linked to illegal drugs were killed in a pre-dawn raid shoot out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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