A petition seeking the disqualification of Akbayan Rep. Arlene Javellana Bag-ao from her post has been filed before Congress after she allegedly shed her affiliation with the party-list group and shifted loyalty with the ruling Liberal Party in her bid to run for congressman in the lone district of Dinagat Islands in Mindanao.
Akbayan Partylist Representative Arlene “Kaka” Bag-ao is “the best thing to happen to Dinagat Islands,” a lawmaker said on Friday.
The budget department released close to P140 million in pork barrel to the province of Dinagat Islands last month or six months after its representative, fugitive cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr., was stricken off the congressional roster.
Call it post-doomsday recrimination. A cult leader in Surigao del Norte province on Friday blamed corrupt government leaders for the “delayed” coming of their “Divine Government,” even as members of the Ecleo family of Dinagat Islands, who controls the Philippine Benevolent Missionary Association (PBMA), are locked in a doomsday-related tit for tat.
Dinagat’s legal status may have been finally settled, but the young province is bracing for a clash brewing among members of the only family that it has known as leaders—the Ecleos.
The Supreme Court has ruled with finality that the law creating Dinagat Islands province out of Surigao del Norte in 2006 was constitutional.
The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled with finality that the law creating Dinagat Islands province out of Surigao del Norte in 2006 was constitutional.
