Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde warned Iloilo Representative Richard Garin and his father, Guimbal town Mayor Oscar Garin Sr. that they will be put in jail if they continue to refuse to surrender their firearms.

According to Albayalde, Rep. Richard Garin is not yet surrendering his 11 firearms with some already expired licenses while his father, has eight guns with also expired licenses.

 “According to the PNP-Firearms and Explosives Office (FEO), they have not yet heeded our order although we already informed them yesterday (Thursday) about the matter. We already issued a notice to them that all of their permits have been canceled,” Albayalde said.

“They have expired licenses and if they fail to surrender that, they can be subjected to a search warrant,” he added.

The Garins are facing trouble after they mauled a police officer several days ago.

As a response, the government filed a case against the two powerful politicians, they also canceled their permit to carry and removed their deputation over the local police.

Several hours after the warning of Albayalde, the Garins decided to surrender their firearms.

Photos posted by RMN-Iloilo showed the powerful guns owned by the two Garin.

The Garins are considered as a powerful political family in Iloilo, however, the current administration didn’t show any fear of giving them the right punishment.

President Duterte even angered by the incident.

“I will ask General Año to take a look bakit nagkaganun [why did it happen], investigate. I’m not urging him. I’m ordering him to file a case against the two. Iyong mag-ama na ‘yun [The father and son],” he said.

Guimbal, Iloilo Mayor Oscar Garin Sr. and Iloilo 1st District Rep. Richard Garin are facing several lawsuits from the Philippine National Police after they have reportedly mauled a policeman last weekend.

According to PNP Region 6 Chief Supt. John Bulalacao, he would request for the cancelation of the mayor’s deputation over the police and relieve from his post the chief of police of Guimbal for not taking action to help his personnel..”.

Rep. Garin, who’s the husband of former Health Secretary Janette Garin is also facing a lawsuit for grave threats.

The victim, who’s identified as PO3 Federico Macaya of the Guimbal Municipal Police Station has been summoned by the Garins, who later handcuffed him, threatened him by pointing a gun to his head and the powerful politicians also seized his belongings.

They also allegedly mauled the policeman for still an undisclosed reason.

“I have already ordered the recall of their police escorts when I learned of this incident this morning,” Bulalacao said, noting that “most” of the members of the Guimbal police force “have requested for their transfer out of Guimbal” after the incident.

“I told Cong. Garin that I’m taking this incident as an affront to me. I will not let this pass without taking action against them,” Bulalacao said.

Meanwhile, Congressman Garin already apologized to the Philippine National Police, he also explained the reason why they mauled PO3 Macaya.

Garin explained that he didn’t control himself after he found out that Macaya allegedly asked a victim to withdraw the complaint against a person who hurt a child during a town celebration last week.

“Gusto ko lang maklaro na ang actions ko are not directed to the PNP as an institution, or against its officers and personnel. My actions were a mere display of extreme frustration towards one, single PNP personnel na sa aking palagay ay nag-commit ng great disservice to the people of Guimbal,” Garin said.

The congressman described Macaya’s act as “betrayal of public trust” for asking a victim to withdraw a charge that he/she filed.

Philippinerevolutions.com, the official website of Communist Party of the Philippines and New People’s Army released a statement exactly on their 50th anniversary to stop their armed struggle against the government.

However, the statement is not posted by any officials of the CPP-NPA, but by a hacker who’s a member of Anonymous PH.

Pinoy Hack News uploaded the screenshot of the said website, showing a letter with a sign from Professor Jose Maria Sison.

According to the statement, they’re already fighting for 50 years however there’s nothing good happened during their fight against the government.

The hacker who also introduced himself as Sison said that the leaders of NPA are already old and tired to continue their mission.

You can read the whole statement below:

“Mahigit na limang dekada na tayong lumalaban sa gobyernong ito

Sa loob ng mga nagdaang taon, marami na tayong napagdaanang hirap at sakit.
Ang lahat ng ating mga sakripisyo sa pakikibaka ay hindi maiiwasang patuloy na nagdudulot ng madugo at marahas na pakikipagdigmaan.
Ano na nga ba ang ating mga narating? Gaano karaming dugo na ang dumanak at patuloy na bubuhos? Ilang pamilya na ba ang nasira?
Ilang asawa, kapatid, at anak na ba ang naulila? Ilang kabataan na ba ang nawalan ng magandang kinabukasan?

Ang lahat ng ito ay aking sinimulan at kayo ang kasama ko sa lahat ng laban.
Hindi ito naging madali, dahil ang gobyerno ay patuloy na nakatayo sa kabila ng lahat ng pangyayari sa ating bansa.
Ang ating adhikaing ipabagsak ang sino mang mamumuno at unti-unting gumapang
papasok sa gobyernong ito at kontrolin ang kaisipan ng mga mamamayan ay tila mananatiling isang malaking pangarap.
Patunay na ang gobyernong ito ay itinataguyod ng Sambayanang Pilipino.

Ako at ang mga kasabay kong mga pinuno ng samahan ay matanda na at may mga malubhang sakit.
Habang lumilipas ang mga panahon at tila patuloy na humihina ang katawan ay kasabay ng paghina ng alab sa aking puso sa walang katapusang pakikibaka.
Nais ko na ring bumalik sa aking kinagisnang bansa.
At kung ako man ay mabibigyan ng pagkakataon, nais kong bumalik na nagkakaisa na ang mga Pilipino hindi para sa kung kanino man,
kundi para sa ikauunlad ng ating mahal na bayang Pilipinas.

Ako si Jose Maria Canlas Sison, Ama ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, isang Pilipino,
ay humingi ng paumanhin sa lahat ng mga sakripisyo sa madugong pakikibaka.
Ako ay nananawagan sa lahat ng kapatid sa rebolusyon
CPP-NPA-NDF na sumuko na at itigil na ang ating naumpisahang digmaan na tila walang katapusan at walang kinabukasan.
Tinatawagan ko ang Pamahalaan na tanggapin ng mapayapa ang aming tuluyang pagsuko at pagbaba ng armas.
Itigil na ang dahas at magkisa na tayong lahat. Isang Dugo… Isang Bansa… Isang Lahi… Isang Diwa…”

As of writing, the said website is still hacked.

President Rodrigo Duterte even before he was still the Mayor of Davao City annually visited ill children to give them some gifts this Christmas.

Yesterday, PTV News Mindanao posted photos of the President having bonded with some kids at the Southern Philippine Medical Center in Davao City.

President Duterte who’s known for being tough against criminals showed his soft side while kissing some of the ill children.

He was accompanied by his former aide Christopher ‘Bong’ Go.

Some even can’t stand up because of their weakness, however, it shows how happy are they to be visited by the president.

They also showed some respect to the President who’s like their ‘ninong’ who remembered them this Christmas.

Duterte also prepared some foods for some kids, and also do some fist bump with them.

The President even during the campaign period kept talking about the future generation, an evidence that Duterte is very close to children.

There are also several incidents that the President became emotional for seeing children suffering from illness.

The viral Ateneo high school student who’s a known Taekwondo champion got a lot of attention to the netizen after they discovered that he seems that he already made fighting other students as hobby.

Despite being a small kid, the viral Ateneo student who identified as Joaquin Montes seems that he’s ready to fight any people even they’re taller than him because of his knowledge about martial arts.

However, several athletes and martial artist condemned the acts of Montes who got featured in three viral videos showing how he fought some students of Ateneo.

One of the martial artist who seems to try Montes’ skill is Joshua Aaron III, a Muay Thai champion with the same age of the Ateneo Student.

Amid the issue faced by Montes, Joshua Aaron posted a photo of him challenging the Ateneo student to dominate him, probably in a mixed-martial arts match.

The photo of Aaron became viral on the internet, receiving cheers from different netizens and asking him to give Montes some lesson on how to properly use his knowledge in martial arts.

In his latest post, Aaron even teases his new fans on his skills on Muay Thai, showing them the video of his training.

When asked why he wants a friendly match between him and Montes, he said that he only wants to teach the Ateneo student a lesson.

“ako po yung humahamon, gusto ko lng po sya turuan ng leksyon,” he said.

Some even ride the issue and made a fake account of Joshua Montes, just to give hype to the people for the fictional fight.

Netizens even made several banners if the friendly match between Montes and Aaron is gonna happen for real.

Even several politicians and government officials already reached the news about Montes, including RJ Echiverri, describing the acts of Montes as concerning.

Echiverri also reminded the president of Ateneo, Father Jet Villarin to observe his student first before trying to criticize the government.

Meanwhile, Philippine Taekwondo Association (PTA) released a statement condemning the action of Montes against his schoolmates.

In the statement, PTA said that Taekwondo teaches people to be disciplined and not use their knowledge to fight other people for fun.

“Our association reiterates its objective to teach all Taekwondo practitioners, self-respect and respect for others,” PTA said in the statement.

President Rodrigo Duterte admitted that after all these years and having a relationship with different ladies in the past, he finally met his true love in his current partner Honeylet Avacena.

Duterte made a sweet remark to Avanceña after narrating his previous relationship with a ‘governor’ from Mindanao.

“Ah di ko kay naminaw si Honeylet. Karon pa ni siya siguro mahibaw. Naa pay usang gobernadora ngari nga dugay nang panahon, bata pa pud mi, nauyab nako (Ah I won’t say because Honeylet is listening. Maybe this is the first time that she will hear this. There’s one other lady governor here who — it was a long time ago when we were still young — was my girlfriend. Did you know about that)?” the President said.

“Pero siya na man gyuy akong true love, Honeylet. Kani sa tanang nakit-an nako, mao ni negosyante na mutuo gyud ko ana (But she is really my true love, Honeylet. Out of everyone else that I know, she’s the one that I will really believe in),” he added.

Duterte started his relationship with Avanceña 20 years ago.

He also proudly shared to his audience that his current partner became rich because of being good in handling businesses.

“OFW lang ni. Pero maayo mu… Kay valedictorian ni eh. Oh tinuod na. Iyang anak naliwat niya (She was just an OFW. But she is good at… Because she’s a valedictorian. That’s true. Her daughter takes after her),” Duterte said.

Duterte said that Avanceña who’s a former nurse working overseas save money to expand her business that started during her college days.

“Agsugod lang intawon og usa kabuok Mr. Donut katong likod sa UM. Didto unya niadto siya’g Amerika, nag-ipon og kwarta, trabaho. Overseas worker man ni (It just started with just one Mr. Donut store, the one at the back of UM. And then she went to America to work and save money. She’s an overseas worker),” Duterte said.

“Pag-uli niya, naka-capital siya, nag-franchise napud siya’g usa unya nisulod pagka kaning karne. Kanang karne diha iya na (When she came home, she had saved up for capital, she franchised another one and then ventured into the meat business. The meat being sold here is hers),” he added.

Before he met Avanceña who’s the mother of his youngest daughter Kitty, Duterte had a long relationship with Elizabeth Zimmerman, they have three children together: former Davao City vice mayor Paolo Duterte, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpi, and Sebastian Duterte.