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Iloilo solon bent on erasing Duterte's unsavory tag of city as 'most shabulized' 

Published Aug 18, 2024 06:39 am

At A Glance

  • House Deputy Majority Leader Iloilo City lone district Rep. Julienne "Jam" Baronda wants to erase once and for all the stigma attached to her city in connection with illegal drugs. 

20240818_144107.jpgFormer president Rodrigo Duterte (left), Iloilo City 1st district Rep. Julienne "Jam" Baronda (Malacañang photo, Rep. Baronda's office)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

House Deputy Majority Leader Iloilo City lone district Rep. Julienne “Jam” Baronda wants to erase once and for all the stigma attached to her city in connection with illegal drugs. 

Baroda was referring to former Rodrigo Duterte's description of Iloilo as “the most shabulized city” in the country. 

"The Ilonggos also want to set the record straight: we have drug cases, but these were not as massive as portrayed. We are not the 'most shabulized city’," she said in a statement sent to House reporters on Sunday, Aug. 18. 

Duterte gave the unsavory tag to Iloilo City way back in August 2016, just a few months into his term. The city has apparently failed to completely shake it off even after eight years. 

"I believe that the former president was misinformed. That is why I sought proof or records from our law enforcement agencies. I only want justice and the truth for our city.,” the lady solon said. 

Baronda was referring to last Friday's quad-committee hearing in Bacolor, Pampanga wherein she sought the 2017 reports of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on illegal drugs. 

Specifically, Baronda wanted to see the law enforcement agencies’ records of the top 50 local government units (LGUs) with high illegal drug incidents. 

She also sought the PNP and PDEA’s list of local politicians involved in the illegal drug trade in 2017 to put to rest the allegation against former Iloilo City mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, who had received threatsd to his life for his purported involvement in the narcotics trade. 

“The Ilonggos have been asking me about former Mayor Mabilog whenever I visit the barangays because they know he is innocent," the congressswoman said. 

Baronda said that Duterte’s tag had left sullen the image of the Ilonggos and their city, which had been known as the City of Love. 

"Shabu" or methamphetamine hydrochloride is a white, powdery illegal drug that's usually referred to as "poor man's cocaine".

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