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DRUG CLEARED ---- PDEA-ARMM Director
Juvenal Azurin (seated 2nd from right) leads the announcement of
drug-cleared and drug-free barangays in Pagalungan. He was joined by Mayor
Salik P. Mamasabulod (seated 2nd from left), Police Senior Inspector Blayn M.
Lomas-e (seated left), Municipal Local Government Operations Officer Michael
Laguilay (standing right), and Capt. Bahnarin Camsa (standing left) of the 7th
IB. (GILMHAR LAO WITH PHOTO BY ANNE
ACOSTA - MINDANAO EXPOSE’)
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PAGALUNGAN, Maguindanao ---Efforts of this
municipal government in its thrust to weed out illegal drug activities paid off
following pronouncement of seven“drug-cleared” barangays
and one “drug-free” barangay.
The “drug-cleared”
barangays are Bagoenged, Buliok, Damalasak, Galakit, Kalbugan, Kudal, and Linandangan.
Barangay Dalgan was declared as “drug-free.”
Barangay Poblacionhas
yet to be cleared.
Barangays Inug-ug,
Layog, and Kilangan, however, did not meet the parameters for inclusion in “drug-cleared”
status among drug-affected barangays.
The parameters for
declaration of “drug-cleared” status of drug-affected barangays are:non-availability
of drug supply; absence of drug transit/trans-shipment activity; absence of
clandestine drug laboratory; absence of clandestine drug warehouse; absence of
clandestine chemical warehouse; absence of marijuana cultivation site; absence
of drug den, dive, or resort; absence of drug pusher; absence of drug user/dependent;
absence of protector/ coddler and financier; active involvement of barangay
officials in anti-drug activities; active involvement of the Ssangguniang Kabataan
to help maintain the drug-liberated status of the barangay; existence of drug
awareness, preventive education, information, and other related programs; and
existence of voluntary and compulsory drug treatment and rehabilitation
processing desk.
The announcement of
drug status was made after series of evaluations and tests duly certified by the
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM).
Director Juvenal
Azurin of the PDEA-ARMM said they still receive reports on the presence of
illegal drug personalities in the three remaining villages, hence, the reason for holding the declaration of
these communities as either drug-free or drug-cleared.
“It should be
addressed first by the law enforcement agency so we can finally declare that
these communities are finally drug-cleared. The declaration is not a forever
assertion but an impetus for barangay leaders to do something more in
maintaining such status,” Azurin emphasized.
Mayor Salik P.
Mamasabulod said they are confident that soon all the barangays will be drug-cleared.
“Barangay Poblacion
has not been included during the assessment but we hope in time it will be
drug-cleared,” Mayor Mamasabulod said. (GILMHAR
A. LAO & ANNE ACOSTA - MINDANAO EXPOSE’)
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