PACMAN VILLAGE. Presidential candidate, Senator Emmanuel ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao leads the ceremonial ground breaking earlier today and acceptance of the 10-hectare land in Barangay Dalipuga, Iligan City donated by the Tamula family. Photo courtesy of Pacquiao Communications Team
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PROMDI Presidential candidate, Senator Manny Pacquiao has vowed to provide full financial support for the country’s courts, if elected president.

He even appealed for a swift resolution on the drug cases against detained Senator Leila de Lima.

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Pacquiao expressed his disappointment that the slow resolution of De Lima’s cases has caught the attention of the international community.

To keep the country from further humiliation due to the long-delayed resolution of cases, Pacquiao said the government must ensure its full support for the judiciary.

Ang akin lang naman din, pakiusap ko lang din naman na tulungan din naman natin yung mga judiciary natin, yung judicial system natin dahil maliit yung budget di sila masyado makagalaw at walang suporta ng ating gobyerno, limited lang ang budget nila,” Pacquiao told Gold Star Daily.

Pacquiao is in Iligan City earlier today to break ground on the ‘Pacman Village,’ a 10-hectare land in Barangay Dalipuga that was donated by the Tamula family to the Manny Pacquiao Foundation.

De Lima’s drug cases made the headlines in the previous days after self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa recanted his drug allegations against the senator.

It was followed by a former officer in charge of the Bureau of Corrections Rafael Ragos’ retraction of his testimony against De Lima, claiming he was threatened by then-Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre.

Pacquiao has said both the credibility of Espinosa and Ragos may be put in a bad light due to their retraction.

Ako, sa akin ‘di na sila kapani-paniwala dahil pabago-bago ‘yung salita eh. Paano mo paniwalaan ‘yan sila,” he said.

However, Pacquiao pointed out that his views on the recent retraction controversies are not important.

The senator said that what needs to be pursued is the immediate resolution of the De Lima cases.

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Ben Balce is this newspaper's Associate Editor. Before joining the Gold Star Daily, Ben worked as the regional correspondent for northern Mindanao of Malaya, (now Business Insight) and Abante, both Manila-based national newspapers. Ben joined Gold star daily in 1997 as a city reporter. After 3-months, he was appointed by Gold Star Daily's publisher Ernesto G. Chu, to be the paper’s editorial cartoonist. Ben was a newspaperman and an editorial cartoonist of Gold Star Daily for more than ten years. He was also commissioned as the Executive Editor of the Quarterly Newsletter of the Police Regional Office 10 (PRO-10) from 2002 to 2007. Ben was a regular member of local and international news organizations, which includes among others Cagayan de Oro Press Club (COPC), National Union of Journalist in the Philippines (NUJP), Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), and Peace and Conflict Journalism Network (Pecojon).