“His inclusion in the drug list was simply an attempt to justify the murder.” The 2020 assassination of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Secretary of
The 2020 assassination of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Secretary of the Board, Retired Police Brigadier General Wesley Barayuga, is the perfect example that demonstrates the excesses committed in the so-called war on drugs from 2016 to 2022. If the public is not yet convinced by what have been revealed by various witnesses in the ongoing QuadCom hearings in the House of Representatives, I do not know what else will.
In the old Constabulary days, such would have been unthinkable because of the strong esprit de corps that existed in the organization. That is apparently no longer true nowadays. What has happened to our police service? Has it gone so low that PNP personnel are so willing to kill one of their own who the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said was only included in the drug list after his death?
But for those who have been tasked to investigate this murder further, there are still a lot more questions that need to be answered. The most important is whether there are people higher than the two alleged people who gave the order to kill Barayuga. Why didn’t General Pinili do more than simply send the widow of Barayuga a text message? After all, he was the one who recruited his classmate to be the PCSO Board Secretary.
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