But before getting into his travails over his son, now detained over narcotics allegations, a disturbing note about another brush with justice for not one family but hundreds who lost immediate kin in the Duterte anti-drug war.
AS a father also with a 38-year-old son, this writer feels deeply for Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla, whom one already knew as Boying nearly half a century ago at the Ateneo High School. One who was moderator and president of his third-year class.The Paghilom program of Fr. Flaviano Villanueva, featured in our October 13 column, exhumes and gives proper burial and autopsy to narco-casualties requiring removal from public cemeteries after five years.
Poetic justice for de Lima?A final note on de Lima: Her detractors may see poetic justice in her no-bail detention since the past administration. As Justice secretary, she conducted a dubious election fraud investigation jointly with the Commission on Elections, compromising Comelec impartiality.That led to the jailing of then-president Gloria Arroyo on poll fraud accusations made by a former Maguindanao provincial administrator with whom de Lima made a deal.
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