Peter Laviña resigns as NIA chief post amid corruption allegations.

National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Chief Peter Tiu Laviña has resigned from his post amid corruption allegations.

Laviña on his Facebook page on Tuesday said he wanted to quietly leave his post but he had to address the intrigues.

"Recently, there had been efforts to discredit me again. There are rumors circulating that I have asked money from NIA contractors. These are not true!" he said in a separate post.

Laviña said he decided to resign to spare President Rodrigo Duterte's administration from unnecessary intrigues.

"I have neither personal vested interest in it nor ill intent towards NIA and the whole government, which we are trying to reform," he said.

“He will continue to serve the Filipinos even if he is no longer working for the government”, Laviña said.

"This is your H2O boy, signing off!" he said, bidding his post good bye.

Former President Benigno Aquino III attends a closed-door meeting of LP members on Tuesday.

LP Senate President Kiko Pangilinan was not surprise about the down full of the 4 LP senators in the major commitee and replace with other senators in the Pres. Duterte side. We all know that the LP senator is a member of the majority coalition or hindrance of President Rodrigo Duterte's plan for his Administration.

But the fate of the coaliton is now in limbo after a shakeup in the Senate on Monday March 6, 2017.

Three LP senators and an ally lost their key Senate positions.

Ralph Recto replaces Frankin Drilon as Senate president pro tempore – the second highest in the chamber. Cynthia Villar takes over the agriculture committee from Pangilinan, Chiz Escudero now leads the education committee from Bam Aquino, while JV Ejercito gets the health committee from Sen Risa Hontiveros.

Pangilinan said the LP will decide on the matter after the vote on the re-imposition of death penalty in the Lower House on Wednesday.

LP Senator’s postponed the decision on the matter of whether or not the contingent of Liberal Party in the House will leave the majority until after these death penalty debates have been completed.

Some LP members want to see if House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez will follow through on his threat to strip congressmen off their committee chairmanships if they vote against the bill.

If this happens, it could trigger the LP's split from the coalition.

But the LP has still decided to formally disagree on the possible return of the Death Penalty.

X.Pres. Benigno Aquino III and V.P. Leni Robredo were also present at the meeting but did not allow someone to know the content of thier meeting and what they shared with their party mates. But according to some LP members, Aquino urged party members to speak out more.

Trillanes, hindi natatakot sa bantang pagsasampa ng kaso laban sa kanya ni SolGen Calida

Hindi nagpatinag si Senador Antonio Trillanes IV sa banta ni Solicitor General Jose Calida na sampahan siya ng kaso.

Sa isang statement, sinabi ni Trillanes na kahit pa bantaan siya ay gagampanan pa rin niya ang mandato na ibunyag si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte.

Maninindigan din umano siya sa pag-abuso sa kapangyarihan ng administrasyon.

Kaya hamon ni Trillanes, tumahimik na lang si Calida at gawin na lang ang banta nitong pagsasampa ng kaso.

Si Trillanes ay binantaang kakasuhan dahil sa umano’y pagkakanlong kina Edgar Matobato at Arthur Lascañas na kapwa umaming miyembro ng Davao Death Squad (DDS).

Suspek sa road rage incident sa QC, pinayuhang sumuko na lang

Pinaghahanap pa rin ng Quezon City Police District (QCPD) ang tukoy nang suspek sa pamamaril sa isang motorcycle rider noong weekend.

Kinilala ng QCPD ang suspek na si Fredison “Sonson” Atienza.

Ani QCPD Director Guillermo Eleazar, base sa firearms license record ni Atienza ay residente ito ng Karuhatan, Valenzuela City.

Positibo namang kinilala si Atienza ng kapatid ng biktimang si Anthony Mendoza sa pamamagitan ng larawang iprinisinta ng QCPD.

Naniniwala si Eleazar na nasa Pilipinas pa si Atienza na umano’y high roller poker player.

Pinayuhan ni Eleazar si Atienza na sumuko na lamang sa pulisya.

200 Pulis Scalawags na may kinakaharap na kaso, dinismiss na sa serbisyo

PNP Chief Gen. Bato De Rosa kinumpera na napermahan na nya ang dimisal order ng nasa dalawang daang pulis scalawags. Ito ay kanyang pinahayag sa kanyang talumpati sa pagkatapos ng dumalo sa ika 28th anibersaryo ng National Collge Police sa Silang Cavite. Bahagi pa daw ito ng internal cleansing sa buong PNP na pinatitiyak ni Pres. Duterte at ang ipiktobong paglilinis sa hanay ay para din sa kapakanan ng hany ng buong kapulisan na tapat sa kanilang serbisyo sa bayan.

Senate to hear Lascañas' testimony againts Pres. Duterte on March 6

Senators have debated over the matter, but in the end, have decided to hear once again the "revelations" of a former police officer linked to an alleged liquidation squad.

Sen. Ping Lacson said on Tuesday that the Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, which he chairs, would be pushing through on Monday with a probe into the "new" claims of retired SPO3 Arthur Lascañas.

Lascañas said: Matobato was telling the truth

Last week, Lascañas claimed that he was the leader of the so-called Davao Death Squad or DDS, and that then Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte had paid them to kill drug criminals — and later on, the mayor's enemies.

This was in stark contrast to what he told the Senate in October last year that the so-called death squad did not exist at all.

Second time around

For the hearing next week, Lacson said his committee would also invite representatives from the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and former police chiefs of Davao City.

The senator said he would be requiring the CHR to bring documents pertaining to their investigation on the DDS, if it existed — at least when Duterte was the city mayor.

The Senate probe was finally scheduled after some senators raised arms over having Lascañas again — this time with a recantation.

Sen. Tito Sotto noted that the Justice committee had already concluded last November that the DDS did not exist. Sen. Dick Gordon, who came out with that report, fumed that accommodating Lascañas for the second time was an insult to the Senate — since he had lied to the lawmakers the first time around.