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Remulla says ‘no sacred cow’ in war on drugs probe

Remulla says ‘no sacred cow’ in war on drugs probe

Michael Delizo,

ABS-CBN News

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Updated Oct 14, 2024 08:50 PM PHT

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MANILA – Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Monday said there will be no special treatment to anyone who will be proven guilty following the exposés in the congressional hearing implicating former government officials in the previous administration’s bloody anti-narcotics campaign.

In a media briefing following his first command conference with the Philippine National Police (PNP) at Camp Crame, Remulla said “there are no sacred cows in this investigation,” while also acknowledging that anyone is innocent until proven guilty.

“Anyone who is guilty, anyone who is found guilty, anyone will be treated like any other person. They will be accorded no special treatment. They will be accorded no special privileges. Everyone will face the full consequence of the law and the powers of the PNP and the institutions and the DILG,” Remulla said.

On Friday, retired police colonel Royina Garma directly implicated former President Rodrigo Duterte and his top aide Senator Bong Go in orchestrating a cash reward system in the extrajudicial killings (EJKs) of drug suspects during his term.

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In her affidavit submitted to the House Quad Committee, Garma revealed information involving Duterte and Go regarding their roles in overseeing and coordinating the reward system for police officers who killed drug suspects.

She said Duterte ordered her to help find a PNP  officer to lead a national anti-drug task force replicating the “Davao Model,” a system rewarding police for killings.

Remulla said he will still wait for the full revelations and the conclusion of the investigation before taking any actions.

“The testimonies are not over yet so as far as I am concerned, we will wait until all the testimonies are in. We will wait until the appropriate actions are done but initial work is already being conducted but only to that extent we will until Congress is finished and then we will act on it,” he said.

Meantime, PNP chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil said a committee has already been formed to investigation Garma’s testimonies.

“We asked the former chiefs to give statement because it’s already nasabi na kasi ni Col. Garma na former chiefs are being informed regarding doon sa war on drugs so we have to take their statements and see something about it para we know where we start doon sa investigation natin,” Marbil said during the same media briefing.

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