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'Nearly a year after he stepped down from the presidency, the shadow of Duterte continues to cast a long, dark shadow.' Opinion More in this ThoughtLeaders piece by Inday Espina-Varona:
More than three weeks after the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs started hearings on the March 4 killing governor Roel Degamo and nine others in Negros Oriental, the shadow of former president Rodrigo Duterte stalked into the gurgling swampland of corruption, power play, and murder plots.
Torres narrated her dramatic flight from Dumaguete to Dapitan, where she parked her children in chi-chi Dakak Resort before proceeding to Davao City to beg help from Duterte. He directed her to go to the Senate and talk to Dela Rosa, his former national police chief, and seek security for her family.Dela Rosa has a reputation for roaring at resource persons for real or imagined infractions. He’s detained others for contempt.
It would have been amusing if the stakes weren’t so high for the province with a population of 1,432,990 . So it’s hard to buy into a scenario where everyone and their grandmothers hoodwink Dela Rosa by hiding a new act of violence in the capital city of Negros Occidental. Even if, as Torres claimed, the new Dumaguete police chief, Lt. Col. Ronoel Fungo, told her not to give interviews to the media.Senate hearings sometimes provide the opportunity for peddling what can’t be claimed in press releases.
Earlier, she claimed that even Degamo threw himself at her mercy, acknowledging her friendship and influence over the police. Why an aide would enjoy that is anybody’s guess. The Degamo widow pointed out that she and her late husband had tried several times to seek an audience with Duterte when he was still in power. No dice. While the Pamplona mayor is also prone to imperious, over-reaching behavior, other sources have confirmed this particular claim.
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