MSEditorial Rep. Barbers’ good question 'There is a suggestion in Barbers’ question that there might have been a failure at the level of the US Customs and Border Protection, reason the contraband got past them' READ:
of his son Juanito Jose for possession of P1.25 million worth of high-grade marijuana, Surigao del Norte 2nd District Rep. Robert Ace Barbers raised a question.
Barbers, chairman of the House Committee on Dangerous Drugs, said there is one major question that solicits immediate answers, which, paraphrased, stands up like: Is the US Customs and Border Protection allowing exportation of kush marijuana from the United States? Based on the case information, the younger Remulla was charged with “willfully, unlawfully and knowingly” having in his possession a brown paper parcel containing two tape-sealed transparent plastic bags, one containing 437.93 grams and the other 455.98 grams of marijuana.He was arrested at a house inside BF Resort Village in Barangay Talon Dos during a “controlled delivery” operation by PDEA agents and Ninoy Aquino International Airport-Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group.
Barbers has a point when he asked the US government “to institute measures that will strengthen its control over what comes out of its jurisdiction.”
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