Published March 17, 2021, 5:11 PM
A barangay chairman and four other persons have been arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) BI for alleged illegal quarrying activities in Balanac River in Laguna.
NBI Officer-In-Charge Director Eric B. Distor on Wednesday, March 17. identified those arrested last March 11 as Barangay Balanac Chairman Dennis Olipano, Michael Abad, Randy delos Reyes, Danilo Noriel and Abner Davac.
Distor said they were arrested by the agents of the NBI’s Environmental Crime Division (NBI-EnCD).
“Subjects were arrested for disposing and extracting boulders and minerals from Balanac River, Laguna without necessary permits from DENR-MGB (Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Mines and Geosciences Bureau) or the PMRB-Laguna (Provincial Mining Regulatory Board),” the NBI said in a statement.
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The ICPC on Wednesday re-arraigned Okoi Obono-Obla, a former Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution for alleged N10. 1 million fraud in an FCT High Court.
Obono-Obla, who was a former Chairman of the disbanded Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), was also charged with failure to honour ICPC invitation.
Also arraigned is Obono-Obla’s Senior Assistant Special Duties (Protocol), Aliyu Ibrahim.
The former SPIP chairman was on Jan. 22 arraigned before the court alongside Ibrahim and Managing Director of ABR Global Petroleum Resources Limited, Daniel Omughele.