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MANILA, Philippines – The Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Gen. Debold Sinas, shouted “fake news” on Monday in a video of him allegedly attending a Christmas party, which is now circulating on social media.
“Po negative, because of false news,” Sinas replied at a press conference held in San Fernando, Pampanga when asked if he was attending a Christmas party, and some netizens called him “morning part two.”
Before assuming the position of head of the PNP, Sinas was embroiled in a controversy while still head of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), as he and 18 other people were photographed during a surprise serenade. birthday or a “morning” for Sinas birthday. May.
The surprise birthday serenade took place when Luzon and some parts of the country were still under an enhanced community quarantine that prohibited mass gatherings.
Sinas later apologized for the fiasco, but insisted that he and the other police officers present at the meeting had followed health protocols.
President Rodrigo Duterte himself defended Sinas saying that it was not Sinas’s fault that his NCRPO men threw a surprise serenade and a party for him.
Duterte added that he will forgive Sinas in case the latter is found guilty of the morning.
According to Sinas, he has seen the supposed video of the Christmas party and clarified that it was originally taken during a retirement party of a classmate last January in the city of Tuguegarao, Cagayán.
“We don’t have a Christmas party. Maybe there are people who are really helpless in life, but that is not true, “he said.
(We didn’t have a Christmas party. Maybe there are some people who don’t do anything in life, but that’s not true).
/ MUF
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