16 Manaoag Brgys Narc –Free - PDEA

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MANAOAG, Pangasinan – The aggressive anti-narcotics campaign of the mayor here bore fruits when a high official of the Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) awarded the 16 village chiefs here the certificates that their turfs are illegal - drug free.

 

NARC-FREE. Manaoag Mayor Jeremy A. Rosario (extreme left) and officials from the Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency leads by Provincial Director –IA V Rechie Q. Camacho during the awarding of the 16 villages represented by their Chairmen as narcotics free. The fete is held at the Municipal Health and Wellness Hall in the Presidencia de Manaoag.

The barangay chairmen received recently from PDEA Provincial Director –IA V Rechie Q. Camacho their certification. Camacho was assisted by Mayor Jeremy A. Rosario, Municipal City Anti-Drug Abuse Council Focal Person Aldrin M. Aquino, Local Government Operations Officer – VI Shiela E. Velasquez, Municipal Health Office Overseer Dr. Ela Camille Baltazar and PEMS Fidel B. Mejia (who represented this town’s Chief of Police Major Napoleon M. Eleccion, Jr.)
The 16 narcotics - free villages here are Bisal, Bucao, Calaocan, Lelemaan, Licsi, Lipit Sur, Matulong, Mermer, Oraan East, Oraan West, Pantal, Parian, Santa Ines, Sapang, Tebuel and San Ramon.
The fete for these villages have been held at the Municipal Health and Wellness Hall in the Presidencia de Manaoag.
There are still ten villages here that are not yet cleared by the PDEA but Mayor Rosario is hell bent to make them narcotics free in the soonest possible time.