Church calls on public
to join ‘mass for truth'
BUT WON'T LEAD
MOVE FOR GMA RESIGNATION
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra yesterday called on the public to join a “Mass for Truth” at the San Sebastian Cathedral at 5:15 p.m. tomorrow to be followed by a via crucis around the Bacolod public plaza in support of Senate witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada who has exposed corruption in government.

The bishop while calling on the people to join the crusade for good governance and the cleaning up of government of unworthy officials, stopped short of calling for the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The Church is just an energizer in the campaign against corruption, a call for the resignation of the President will not come from the Church, and any such initiative should come from the people, Navarra said.

Bacolod City Police Office director, Senior Supt. Ronilo Quebrar, yesterday said he will direct an investigation on the allegations of a convicted drug peddler that BCPO Drug Enforcement Unit and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency members have had illegal links with him before.

He also said they will file charges against those involved if there is enough evidence in Sammy Fajardo's claims that he used to sell shabu for DEU and PDEA members before his arrest in 2005, and eventual conviction and sentence to life-imprisonment on January 14 this year.

ILOILO CITY – No mercy and no second chances for erring policemen.

The warning came from Chief Supt. Isagani Cuevas during his assumption yesterday of the command of the Police Regional Office 6, that was attended by at least 10 police generals, at Camp Martin Delgado here.

Cuevas who replaced Chief Supt. Wilfredo Dulay as Western Visayas police chief, said he will create an Integrity Task Force to arrest, investigate and file charges against scalawags in the police organization.