[Closer Look] Espenido, Duterte’s drug war hammer, bares rot but defends the king

Police Lieutenant Colonel Jovie Espenido implicates Bato dela Rosa and the PNP in drugs but dodges when asked about extrajudicial killings, and protects the Big Boss, who screamed out the orders to kill, kill, kill

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At the August 28 House of Representatives quad committee hearing on drugs, POGOs, corruption, and human rights, Espenido appeared to be a boon to lawmakers seeking links between Duterte’s top men and criminal syndicates. The whole Tokhang exercise was actually groundwork for the PNP kill quotas. Espenido was quiet about this and other shortcuts ordered in the course of six years of mayhem. His reason: a junior officer obeys.

Rolando was slain in his cell at the Leyte Sub-Provincial Jail in a suspicious night raid on November 5, 2016, by cops serving a search warrant for illegal possession of firearms. The mayor had surrendered months earlier, claiming Espenido had threatened him if he did not bring in Kerwin. Even stranger is his protectiveness towards the Big Boss, who screamed out the orders to kill, kill, kill.First, he was flattered by the former leader’s out-of-public-light defense when he faced allegations of being in the pay of drug lords. The allegations, he says, were punitive action for taking down networks that Duterte’s men wanted to shield or take over. But he languished while Duterte continued backing Dela Rosa and Go.

The Negros bishops protested. The newly-assigned cop told them to trust in God’s will and pray harder with this bizarre explanation: “Espenido is just an instrument, maybe for arrests or for killing. God cannot come here to do the job Himself.”He praises Duterte for heeding his call to strike out the name of then-Bacolod councilor Cano Tan from the drug list. Yet, he seems clueless about that case’s background.

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