PDEA warns Politicians

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Wednesday warned relatives or immediate family members of politicians to stop their drug activities or they will suffer the same fate of Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim's son.

Last Friday, Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim's 44-year-old son, Manuel, was arrested with three other suspected drug peddlers by PDEA agents on a sting operation in Sta. Cruz Manila.

The mayor's son was nabbed after selling 100 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, notoriously known as shabu, to a PDEA agent.

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What did his father do to him for his son to do this to his father? This had put shame to their family and to his dad's "Shame Campaign".

It is also nice to know that Lim did not use his power to save his son. For me, even as a dad, it is the right thing to do. Not because he didn't love his son but. he loves his son that he doesn't want to do more harm to him by saving him.

Good Job Mayor Lim.

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Lim's Shame Campaign, will be implemented in the house

Impressive attendance at the House of Representatives has prompted the House leadership to shelve plans of implementing a “shame campaign” against habitual absentee lawmakers.

House Majority Leader Arthur Defensor informed reporters who attended the weekly Ayes and News Forum in Quezon City of the decision of Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. to put on hold the plan to impose sanctions on erring members.

Sessions of the 237-man chamber, held Mondays through Thursdays, have been attended by around 200 congressmen. The impressive attendance could largely be attributed to the huge number of neophyte lawmakers, numbering around 100, in the 14th Congress.

“The Speaker has his own reasons for shelving the proposed sanctions because of the fantastic attendance,” Defensor said.

He clarified though that the rules committee that he heads is serious in making public the names of lazy congressmen.

“We are serious and determined in publishing the names of absentee congressmen and the justified absences as well, because we have to continue the impressive attendance,” Defensor asserted.

Lim's Shame campaign is gaining more popularity and winning in most Filipino citizens heart, is now known as a positive political action.

Other head and high officials should also implement this in their own respective departments to reduce graft and corruption, one of Philippines' top problems. Just a few months back, we were tagged as the most corrupt in asia.

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Dirty Harry is back!

Still a Senator, Lim will leave his position to serve as Manila's new mayor. Known for his "shame campaign", he will again revive his shame campaign against drug pushers when he assumes office.

"That’s the only way we could get rid of these drug pushers," Lim told reporters covering the national canvassing by the Commission on Elections at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.

His "Shame campaign", implemented by spray-painting the houses of drug pushers in the community. He believed that through this strategy, the pushers would stop their illicit activities.


According to Lim, he intends to continue the programs of outgoing Mayor Lito Atienza that are beneficial to city residents.

"If the programs are okay, why should I not continue them? I believe in continuity of programs," he added.


Lim served as police chief of Metro Manila under former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and gained a reputation for being tough on criminals.

He later served as head of the justice department's investigation bureau before being elected mayor of Manila in 1992.

As mayor, he padlocked girlie bars and angered civil rights activists by marking the homes of alleged drug users, prompting accusations that he was abetting extra-judicial killings.

Go Lim!!!

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