MCPO has eyes on 3 other clubs

It’s not only the renewal of Liv Super Club’s business permit or the monitoring of similar establishments in Mandaue City that Mayor Luigi Quisumbing wants the City Legal Office to look into.

This, after the mayor received communication regarding these two issues from the Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO).

Apart from Liv Super Club, Senior Supt. Julian Entoma, MCPO director, admitted they had placed three other establishments under surveillance after they received reports that illegal drugs were being distributed in these places.

Entoma also wanted to clarify his earlier recommendation to the City to cancel Liv Super Club’s business permit, especially after the establishment was included in the matrix of the Ecstasy distribution channel in Metro Cebu that was released by the Police Regional Office 7.

“I am not saying the City should revoke Liv Super Club’s business permit. But when the time comes that it needs to renew the permit, the City should say no. Whatever benefits these clubs provide to the government cannot outweigh the ill effects their operations have on our youth or on the public in general,” he said in Cebuano.

Quisumbing said the City Legal Office was already looking into Entoma’s recommendation.

He said even if the MCPO director did not recommend closing or revoking the permits of the three other clubs, the City was also looking into their operations.

“We received the communication from the MCPO yesterday (Feb. 13) regarding Liv and other clubs around Mandaue City... we had been saying some of these clubs were being used as distribution points for drugs. We are willing to work with the MCPO and PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) to make sure that we eradicate the distribution of illegal drugs and party drugs in the city,” Quisumbing said in Cebuano.

The mayor will receive the legal department’s initial findings on Friday, Feb. 15.

He also said they were checking if Liv Super Club and the other clubs had already renewed their operations.

“Maybe the MCPO would not recommend the non-renewal of permits if it didn’t have strong basis. That is why our city legal is sitting down with the MCPO to discuss their basis (for non-renewal),” Quisumbing said.