![]() “Kahit kulang” (even if outnumbered) they should have put up a fight, insisted Dela Rosa. The police officers explained they failed to offer resistance because they were disarmed and outnumbered by some 40 to 50 rebels. ![]() Nagpulis ka pa kung talawan ka (Why be a cop if you’re a coward),” he said. “Once you take oath as a police officer you must be ready to die anytime. The New People’s Army raid on June 18 should have been a chance for the Maasin policemen to prove their worth, said Dela Rosa, but they showed unwillingness to fight. He reminded them and all other police stations in the country of their responsibility to “fight till death once attacked.”ĭela Rosa said he may reassign the sacked officers to Marawi City where government forces are battling Islamic terrorists for a month now. Its former police officers, however, were made to face Dela Rosa yesterday. The Maasin police station has a new set of police force. ![]() They were nine on duty here (when the rebels attacked) but none of them fired a single bullet,” lamented Dela Rosa. The Philippine National Police (PNP) is no place for cowards, the organization’s chief General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa told the policemen during an inspection of the Maasin police station yesterday. Chairman, Your Honors.ILOILO City – Policemen of Maasin, Iloilo who were sacked after rebels raided their police station could find themselves squaring off with the Maute terrorist group in Marawi City. The General also informed the visiting Senate panel that they are “now awaiting the authority of the Office of the Solicitor General” (OSG) for the expropriation cases since not all the lands to be made part of the camp are expropriated.īrawner added: “I understand we already have a letter from the OSG giving us that authority, so kahit na hindi pa po nabayaran iyong ibang mga may-ari ng lupa, we can go on already with the construction, Mr. And also, agreement between the Philippine Army, LWUA and the Water District of Marawi City, Your Honors.” In turn, Brawner informed the committee: “We will now move on with the survey and with the construction. Hindi na tayo makarinig ng problema diyan na sabihin na bumagal dahil ganito, ganoon, ganoon ,” Dela Rosa said. With the conflict already settled, as well as with the appointment of Revil, there is a need now to have a tripartite agreement between LWUA, PA, and the local water district of Marawi City with a possible lease agreement that gives the army a 25 percent discount. It will be recalled that during their similar meeting in September 2022, the panel noted that the bulk water project could not proceed because of some misunderstandings between LWUA and the PA, including the Army’s demand for free water supply to the camp and the lack of an administrator of LWUA. Revil, LWUA’s newly-appointed administrator, reported to the Dela Rosa-led committee at last Wednesday’s hearing.īrawner, commanding general of the PA, said the water tank will be placed at the highest peak of the army camp in Barangay Kapantaran or the old city hall, which will house a battalion, while the LWUA water treatment facility will be constructed at the lower area of the camp. “I just talked with our very supportive General Romeo Brawner, who is here with us…he will be allowing now the final moving on of the project within the Philippine Army camp because that is where our bulk system, our bulk water project is,” Atty. This developed as the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) and the Philippine Army (PA), two of the implementing agencies of the water project, have broken their impasse, paving the way for the fast-tracking of the project. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Marawi City Rehabilitation and Victims Compensation, said at the weekend he expected much faster implementation of the bulk water project component of the Marawi City rehabilitation program.
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