De Lima praised Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. for making an “unprecedented but bold” move in asking the PNP officials to resign, based on fears that the drug trade may have made its way up to the police leadership. | GabrielLaluINQ
While several activist groups have sounded alarm on Abalos’ move as it supposedly opens the door for the lack of accountability, de Lima said that it can be a way to go after true drug protectors.De Lima has been detained for nearly six years at the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame due to drug-related charges.
NBP is under the management of the Bureau of Corrections , an attached agency of the Department of Justice Despite the cases, de Lima maintained that she was only detained after earning the ire of former president Rodrigo Duterte, as she led investigations into the bloody drug war campaign.
In Ragos case, he said that former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II — Duterte’s first DOJ chief — asked him to corroborate the allegations against de Lima.
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