DAVAO CITY -– The City of Davao greeted 2022 with a surge of coronavirus disease cases due to Omicron, the fastest-spreading variant of the SARS-COV2, but bid 2022 goodbye with a “remarkable economic rebound,” reclaiming its position as one of the country’s regional economic powerhouses.
Among the growth drivers include construction, manufacturing, and trade sectors, which had been severely affected at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021. The Duterte brothers, Sebastian and Paolo, took their oaths separately a week after their sister had been sworn in by Supreme Court Associate Justice Ramon Paul Hernando.
The Duterte family has ruled Davao City for more than three decades. Before he was elected president in 2016, former President Duterte served as mayor from 1988 to 1998, representative of the first district from 1998 to 2001, mayor from 2001 to 2010, vice mayor to his daughter-mayor from 2010 to 2013, and mayor from 2013 to 16 with son Paolo as vice mayor.
The 77-year-old former President told the crowd he would catch up on lost sleep after stepping down as the country’s leader.The lack of public transportation, worsening traffic condition, flooding, killings, water supply interruptions, solid waste problem, and inflation marked the mayor’s first few months in office but the mayor addressed the public’s growing dissatisfaction by asking them to give him more time to learn the ropes.
The Mangacop family expressed disappointment over the resolution of the City Prosecutor’s Office, finding probable cause to indict Pepino for the crime of homicide, instead of murder.Findings of the examination conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation on the exhumed remains of Mangacop showed the suspect “intended to inflict serious harm on the victim.”
The mayor belongs to another AKHRO chapter as he attended Ateneo de Davao University for college. Video clips of him seeking support from his fraternity brothers during election or attending AKRHO gatherings while chanting “Long Live Alpha Kappa Rho!” are available online.In February 2022, Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy, founder of Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name
The charge also states that the church leader and other KOJC administrators “coerced pastorals into performing “night duty” under the “threat of physical and verbal abuse and eternal damnation by defendant Quiboloy and other KOJC administrators.”