Friday, September 30, 2016
Paquiao Admits That He Used Drugs
Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao admits drug use, despite his close personal friendship with President Duterte who has declared a war on drugs.
The boxing star, who was elected as a senator in May, said he backed president Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs and claimed that the leader was chosen by God to "discipline the people".
Since taking office in June, Mr Duterte has put the crackdown at the core of presidency and said it will not stop "until the last drug manufacturer is killed".
According to police, 3,171 drug dealers and users have been killed - two thirds by unknown assailants and the rest in police operations.
Pacquiao, 37, said: "The president, he doesn't know my experience with drugs.
"I tried drugs…many kinds of drugs, all kinds of drugs."
The boxer said his substance abuse happened for years "before I became a champion".
He added it was unfair to blame the drugs-related death toll on Mr Duterte.
Pacquiao said: "God put him there for a reason, for purpose - to discipline the people.
"In the past administrations, people didn't respect the law, the leader, the authorities.
"What Duterte is trying to do is let the people know - and put it in their heart and minds - that you need to respect the laws of the land."
The boxer, who is the godfather of Mr Duterte's grandson, is a close ally of the president.
In his first speech in the senate, Pacquiao backed Mr Duterte's drugs crackdown by calling for the death penalty to be reinstated for dealers.
Pacquiao also fronted a motion to oust the chair of a high-profile committee examining the president's links to vigilante death squads in Davao.
The 37-year-old's comments come after Mr Duterte sparked outrage by calling Barack Obama a "son of a whore" while warning the US president not to question him about extrajudicial killings.
Despite the fall-out, Pacquiao asserted that the Philippine president is "a nice guy".
He said: "(Mr Duterte) is a respectful person, a hospitable person, a friendly person."
Thursday, September 29, 2016
JAYBEE SEBASTIAN FINALLY SIGNED AFFIDAVIT WHILE RECOVERING THE HOSPITAL
Prominent inmate Jaybee Sebastian, who was injured in a stabbing occurrence inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) on Wednesday, is presently in stable condition.
Photographs of Sebastian inside the doctor’s facility was discharged to the media Thursday, alongside photographs of his sworn affidavit about the riot in Bilibid that left one drug lord dead and 3 others harmed (including him).
As indicated by Sebastian, he was stabbed by an inmate named Tomas Doniña, also known as Tom, between 7:00 to 8:00 Wednesday morning in the chaos corridor of Building 14 of NBP.
He added that he was watching TV when he was stabbed in the back with an ice pick.
Sebastian likewise said in his announcement that he chatted with Doniña and a specific Clarence Dongail before the stabbing incident.
JAYBEE SEBASTIAN SIGN:
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