Oscar Albayalde has no shame

Albayalde was relieved as Pampanga provincial director for that misconduct, but like a phoenix — a legendary bird, which burns in a conflagration and rises from the ashes with renewed life — became the PNP’s top honcho six years later.

But, as the saying goes, no matter how well a stink is covered up, it will come out and permeate the air sooner or later.

Albayalde’s stench surfaced during the Senate investigation into what was originally about the loopholes in the Good Conduct Time Allowance Law, but has evolved into the retention of socalled “ninja cops” in the service.

Ninja cops are policemen who seize illegal drugs, report part of the seizure, but sell the bigger portion of the seized contraband in the market.

As PNP chief, Albayalde has even rewarded one of his former ninja cop subordinates, Maj. Rodney Baloyo, with a juicy post — as police chief of Tagaytay City.

But despite being unmasked as a protector of ninja cops, Albayalde refuses to resign, saying only the President could relieve him of his post.

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a form of ritual suicide by disembowelment, out of shame.

But Albayalde is no Japanese although he looks like a Buddhist monk with his small face, sparse hair and spectacles.

Although he’s a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy ( PMA), Albayalde only got the loyalty bit in the academy’s motto of “courage, integrity, loyalty.”

Yes, loyalty to his men who presumably obeyed his orders to sell most of the illegal drugs they had seized.

So, Albayade is using the word “loyalty” for the wrong reasons.

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His fellow PMAyers, however, were true to their alma mater’s motto.

Aaron Aquino, a retired police general and now chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency; Benjamin Magalong, former chief of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and now Baguio City mayor; and Brig. Gen. Manuel Gaerlan,

Albayalde at the Senate hearing.

Aquino, Magalong and Gaerlan took enough courage to testify against a fellow PMAyer, the integrity to stand on their word and the loyalty to the organization they have served so well, the PNP.

Albayade will, perhaps, go down in history as the most abominable chief of the PNP and its predecessor, the Philippine Constabulary, for that matter.

*** A congressman from Bicol has claimed that Albayalde still has to make a complete accounting of the P35 million that was put up by the government for the capture of the persons involved in the murder of party-list Rep. Rodel Batocabe in Daraga, Albay.

The whistleblowers or informers have complained that they were only given P8 million by Albayalde, the congressman alleged.

Is Albayalde keeping the P27 million for himself?

The Bicol congressman, whose identity I will withhold for the time being, said Albayalde had been pressuring him to come up with the P15 million that all Bicol representatives have pledged to add to the Batocabe reward money.

The Bicol congressman said Albayalde had been calling up his relatives to give him the P15 million.

But the congressman said he would only give the P15 million after Albayalde releases the remaining P27 million to the whistleblowers and informers. Sonofab***h, this guy is avaricious! No wonder, Bong Pineda, the alleged lord, was said to have laughed out loud when he heard the news that Albayalde had been appointed PNP chief.

Pineda and Albayalde are both Kapampangan, or from Pampanga.

Pineda, who maintains

( code of silence) insofar as giving bribes to local and police officials to leave his numbers game alone, reportedly could not help making this comment:“

( Why him when there are many others who could have been chosen)?” Pineda, despite being a wellknown jueteng lord, hates people

(Drugs are destroying our youth),” Pineda once told me.

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Before he left for Russia on a state visit, President Digong ordered Interior Secretary Eduardo Año to investigate Albayalde on his alleged involvement in the illicit drug traffic.

Let’s hope that there will be no whitewash, as both Año and Albayalde are PMAyers.

I recall that when my brother Erwin had a tiff with Social Welfare Secretary Rolando Bautista, another PMAyer, all PMAyers stood as one behind Bautista. “Right or wrong, you are my

as PMAyers are wont to say to one another.

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Before the current furor on the “ninja cops” controversy, Albayalde was being rumored to replace Jaime Morente, another PMAyer, as commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration.

If Albayade had not been exposed in time — he is slated to retire from the police service next month — he would have taken over a very sensitive post. No wonder, the Immigration

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were reportedly in high spirits because they are friends with Albayalde.

Now that Albayalde has been unmasked and will surely not get the Immigration post, those crooks have been seen looking dejected the past few days, my Deep Throat Immigration source said.