Fourty Maasin Barangays Are Under PDEA Close Surveillance

Sept. 5,2011


Forty Maasin Barangays Are Under Close PDEA Surveillance
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.

Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Forty,out of 70 Maasin barangays,are now under close surveillance of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) due to the reported incidence of alleged drug-related activities.
This was the recent disclosure of Abgao Barangay Captain Nacional “Nikko” V. Mercado in an interview with the media.
The younger Mercado said that as President of the Liga Ng Mga Barangay Captains of Maasin, he was chosen by PDEA as the “coordinator” to other Barangay Captains whose barangays they were leading /governing are suspected to have been allegedly influenced by illegal drug dealers thru unidentified informants.
However, since there were no strong evidences against those suspected drug couriers, traders and contact persons in the illegal activities, the Abgao Barangay Captain explained, they have submitted the names of suspected persons from 40 barangays to the PDEA office for verification to the latter’s master list of suspected drug dealers from different parts of the country.Nonetheless,the names of the 40 barangays where alleged suspected drug dealers/pushers have existed, were not revealed by our source.
Mercado further said that this kind of PDEA operation is in coordination with the nationwide PNP officers. They(PDEA and PNP officers) were instructed, he said, to conduct buy-bust operations and also to closely monitor places where suspect5ed drug activities are in progress in order to arrest the suspects.
In a study conducted by concerned agencies on the bad effects of illegal drugs, a high percentage of criminal activities in the Philippines were found to be related to the use of illegal drugs involving some youth and adults.
“If the list of some names we have submitted to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency(PDEA) are also found in their master list”, our source said, “then PDEA personnel together with the PNP officers will be closely monitoring the illegal activities of those confirmed drug dealers or pushers”.(Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.)
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