Manila Rep. Bienvenido Abante on Friday defended lawmakers who allocated state resources for the Duterte administration's anti-drug campaign, saying the
Manila Rep. Bienvenido Abante on Friday defended lawmakers who allocated state resources for the Duterte administration’s anti-drug campaign, saying the billions of pesos they earmarked was never intended to fund operations leading to the summary execution of thousands of Filipinos.- Advertisement -
“The bloody drug war implemented during the Duterte administration, as explained by one of our colleagues, did not solve the drug problem. In fact, it worsened it, creating more harm than good by orphaning thousands of children who lost their parents, often the family breadwinners, on mere suspicion of involvement in drugs,” lamented Abante.
However, Abante also recognized that most lawmakers and other concerned sectors still chose to remain silent even upon realizing the unabated extrajudicial killings happening then. Meanwhile, another lawmaker said Sen. Ronald dela Rosa has a lot of explaining to do over the jailing of then-Sen. Leila de Lima over trumped-up drug charges.
During Tuesday’s marathon Quad Comm hearing, Espenido retracted his previous statements made during a 2016 Senate hearing, where he implicated De Lima in the illegal drug trade. Now that Espenido has corroborated this claim, Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, overall chairman of the Quad Comm, urged Dela Rosa to clarify the matter once and for all, possibly in a Senate investigation.
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