Panay News

End culture of impunity – Leni

- By Adria n Stewa rt Co

MANILA – Vice President Leni Robredo called for an end to the “culture of impunity” among police officers in light of recent raids in Bulacan and Manila that killed some 58 suspected drug offenders. “

mag- express Ito ay i sang bagay na outrage,” Robredo told a news kailangan tayo ng conference on Thursday. “e. Hindi ito. culture of impunity, naman tayo ganyan Hindi tayo isinikwal. Iyong matagal na nating pa.” Sana hindi na natin papayagang

The government was waging makabalik a “war” against drug traffickin­g. No less than President Rodrigo Duterte encouraged police to “shoot” drug suspects if they resist arrest.

“papanaguti­n, Kung merong kasalanan due process alang,” pero dapat iyong she said. “isinasaala­ng- Hindi na hinahayaan­g gumiling pa iyong mga proseso na nasa Konstitusy­on natin para

lahat.” siguruhin na iyong hustisya

At least 32 drug suspects naibibigay para sa were reported killed in raids the Bulacan provincial police conducted from Monday to Tuesday evening. Some 107 others were arrested.

In Manila on Wednesday evening, at l east 26 drug suspects were killed in a “one-time, big-time” antidrug operation after reportedly resisting arrest.

“Good” was how Duterte described the bloody operations in a speech before Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption members in Malacañang. “Bulacan, 32, in a massive Iyong namatay daw kanina raid.

sa another 32 Maganda iyon. Makapatay every day, then maybe we can lang tayo ng mga reduce what ails this country,” the President said.

Earlier t he Philippine National Police ( PNP) said it will investigat­e the antidrug police raids in Bulacan.

Its Internal Affairs Service (IAS) will determine whether or not the officers police went beyond the guidelines, according to PNP spokespers­on Dionardo Carlos.

“An investigat­ion will be carried out by the PNP-IAS

(on its own),” Carlos told a news conference on Wednesday.motu “We propio will look at the operations conducted multiple

Bulacan.” “This was kasi not a singleiyon­g operationg­inawa ng with one target,” he added. “We will look at their report and they delivered result. We will

tingnan natin kasi see what types of operation were conducted.”/

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