An anti-drug crusading policeman yesterday claimed he was threatened with a gun by Mayor Jose "Oti" Montelibano who ordered him to kneel before him at the Mayor's Office in Silay City.

SPO1 DanteA Victor Escorpion, former chief of the Silay police Drug Enforcement Unit, said Montelibano got mad at him for allegedly harassing his followers during the election, and mauling a woman, among others.

When he vehemently denied the accusations, Montelibano allegedly challenged Escorpion "Show me the proof". Montelibano, admitted having summoned Escorpion since Thursday, because of complaints that he had mauled a woman, as recorded at the Silay City Police Station.

Ombudsman
consolidating CLMMRH info
BY NIDA BUENAFE

It will take at least one month for the Office of the Ombudsman to consolidate data gathered on the alleged anomalies in the procurement of hospital supplies at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, the Social Action Center-Corruption Unit said yesterday.

Fr. Aniceto Buenafe of the SAC-CPU said the Ombudsman investigator assigned to the case has started collecting information on the complaint submitted by the Hospital Watch and will release the results in September.

The Ombudsman will tackle the complaints one at a time, starting with the reported irregularities in the bidding procedure of hospital supplies, among them, the procurement of oxygen in 2002 and 2003, Buenafe said.

Warrant served,
but no Ponteras
BY PATRICK PANGILINAN

Bacolod City Police Office director, Senior Supt. Ronilo Quebrar, yesterday said they have received the warrants of arrests and are now searching for the two former BCPO chiefs tagged in the kidnapping of former Barangay Pahanocoy captain Eleuterio Salabas.

Quebrar said they received the warrants against formers Bacolod City police chiefs Vicente Ponteras and George Bajelot Thursday and added that BCPO Warrant and Subpoena Branch operatives had gone to Ponteras' residence but did not find him there.

As for Bajelot's case, Quebrar said that they will let the Oriental Negros police arrest him as he reportedly resides in Zamboangita town.