After the end of a late-night meeting with Duterte at Matina Enclaves, Lorenzana told Rappler on Sunday morning, September 4, hours that “No curfew will be implemented”.
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The President declared “a state of lawlessness” that will allow him to authorize the military to assume some police powers to suppress lawless violence. Lorenzana himself is not certain when it will be released.
JUSTIFIED The provision has mainly to do with the enforcements and limits of declaring martial law.
Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said the basis of the proclamation was terrorism, citing the escape of prisoners, the beheadings of hostages and the Davao City night market blast on Friday that killed 14 people.
He said the state of national emergency on account of lawless violence gives “due regard to fundamental and civil political rights and has nothing to do with martial law or the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus”. “So I’m sure he’ll handle just as well, if not better, for himself”, she said.
Mr Duterte won the presidency in May promising to suppress crime and wipe out drugs and drug dealers.
“It’s more about the right against terrorism”, pointed out Medialdea who heads a caretaker committee while Duterte is out of the country in his first foreign trip as the president. “I warned, I remember warning everybody that there could be a reprisal because of the pressure there in Sulu which is going on”, Duterte said. We know that but I said this is not a fascist state.
“We are giving a P1 million reward to anyone who can give information that will reveal the whereabouts of the person responsible for the bombing”, Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said in an interview with the media after yesterday’s flag raising rites at the City Hall.
Duterte, who visited a morgue early Saturday to pay respects to the dead, said people should submit to searches and frisking at checkpoints for the sake of public safety.
General Ricardo Visaya, and Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Ronald Bato dela Rosa. Supt. Michael John Dubria, and Task Force Davao chief Col. Henry Robinson over the incident.
He said the Philippine National Police will be fully supported by the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
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“The foregoing acts of violence exhibit the audacity and propensity of these armed lawless groups to defy the rule of low, sow anarchy, and sabotage the government’s economic development and peace efforts”, he added.
