Sen. Panfilo Lacson scored the supposed double standards of President Rodrigo Duterte following his admission that he ordered the reinstatement of Superintendent Marvin Marcos who is being accused of profiting from the illegal drug trade.
“I thought it was an all-out drug war I was supporting. Talk about double standards. Talk about double-speak. Change isn’t coming after all,” Lacson said in a post over social networking site Twitter.
A congressional investigation showed that Marcos, along with 17 other police personnel, were involved in the operation that resulted in the killing of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa inside a Leyte provincial jail.
But Duterte on Friday admitted that he ordered PNP chief Ronald dela Rosa to reinstate Marcos so he could pursue an independent investigation.
Duterte said he wanted Marcos back in his post as regional chief of the PNP’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group “because he needed to gather evidence against the police official.”
Lacson raised doubts to Dela Rosa’s mettle as PNP chief, when he gave in to “favors” of his “kumpare from Malacañang” to have Marcos reinstated without thinking of the possible outcomes and just doing as he was told.
“Kumpare, kumare, kamaganak, kaibigan, etc. asking favors from C-PNP. So what? It still boils down to command responsibility when it fails,” Lacson said. “The point is, he’s ultimately responsible for his actions.”
Lacson likewise questioned Duterte on how he was able to clear Dolina from the drug menace in Eastern Visayas although suspected drug lord Kerwin Espinosa claimed that he himself gave Dolina bribes.
In a dzMM radio interview Saturday, Lacson noted parts of Espinosa’s affidavit wherein Kerwin gave the retired Gen. Dolina a P300,000 monthly payola and P2 million ‘good will money’ to protect his narcotics operation in the area.
Lacson likewise stressed that Dolina wanted a P1-million monthly payola from the younger Espinosa, but was lowered to P300,000.
Meanwhile, the PNP Internal Affairs Service said that the policemen involved in the raid which led to the death of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. are still under restrictive custody even though they were allowed to leave Camp Crame.
IAS chief of staff Maria Lynberg Constantinopla made the clarification following reports that the restrictive custody status of Police Supt. Marvin Marcos and 17 other policemen involved in the raid had been lifted.
She added that PNP personnel are supervising the cops in Leyte while they are getting the necessary documents for their counter-affidavits, which will be submitted on Monday.
“In fact, there is no actual lifting of restrictive custody. They were just allowed to go home to get some information for attachment on their counter-affidavit,” Constantinopla said in an ANC television interview.
-thestandard.com.ph
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