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BY GLENN VIDAL BEUP
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ROXAS City – Barangay captains in Capiz were still waiting for the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 6 to set the schedule for their mandatory drug testing.
The provincial Liga ng mga Barangay asked the PDEA to shoulder the drug testing costs first and it would reimburse the amount later, but the agency was not amenable to this, said Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) secretary Zoe Herrera.
Writing Regional Director Gil Pabilona on May 11, the Liga requested the PDEA to “prepare the necessary materials, medicines and medical equipment to be used in the drug testing, subject to reimbursement,” Herrera said.
But the PDEA refused, citing “experiences when the agency was accused of receiving fees.” Hence, the Liga will have to shoulder all the drug testing expenditures, Herrera told this reporter.
Capiz province has 473 barangays, including 47 in this capital city.
Liga Roxas City chapter members took mandatory drug testing under the Police Regional Office 6 crime laboratory last week.
All 47 barangay chairpersons tested negative for shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) use.
Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas Resolution No. 6, series of 2016 enjoins all village chiefs to undergo mandatory drug testing in support to the antidrug campaign of the Duterte administration.
SP member Lilia Demalata, Liga provincial chapter president, promised that Capiz barangay chairpersons will be fully compliant with the resolution by the end of May./PN
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