Surigao del Norte Representative Robert Ace Barbers is about to suggest anew the reinstatement of the dying penalty to handle using unlawful medication within the nation, following studies of “recycling” confiscated medication.
Barbers, who chairs the House Dangerous Drugs Panel, has lengthy been pushing for the reinstatement of the dying penalty to “bring shivers to the bones” of wrongdoers.
“Mag-recommend kami na itulak talaga ‘yung death penalty dito sa mga drug offenders na ‘to,” he was quoted as saying in a report by Mai Bermudez on GMA’s “24 Oras Weekend” on Sunday.
“Pangalawa, ‘yung sa method ng recycling, siguro dun pa lang sa pag-iimbentaryo ng ebidensya na nakakalap eh dapat istrikto na kaagad,” he added.
(We will suggest to essentially push the dying penalty for these drug offenders… Secondly on the strategy of recycling, possibly it ought to be strict from the making of the stock of the proof collected.)
Barbers final week mentioned he was knowledgeable that informants of the police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) are being paid for profitable suggestions with confiscated medication that they then promote on the road.
Assets are supposedly given 30% to as a lot as 70% of the confiscated medication, with PDEA Director General Virgilio Lazo saying that brokers can be requested for a number of the seized medication for a similar objective, however they might be turned down.
A joint Senate Blue Ribbon and Justice Committee inquiry in 2019 discovered that some police officers stored a number of the 200 kilos of unlawful medication seized in a drug bust in Pampanga in 2013 to “recycle” them.
For its half, the Philippine National Police (PNP) mentioned it’s trying into the matter, and people discovered to be concerned will face prison and administrative prices.
“Hindi naman po ito ang policy ng PNP na mag-recycle ng drug. Hindi po ito papayagan at ito-tolerate ng PNP,” spokesperson Police Colonel Jean Fajardo mentioned in the identical report.
(It just isn’t the coverage of the PNP to recycle medication. This is not going to be allowed and tolerated by the PNP.)
Moving ahead, the House of Representatives is about to carry one other listening to on the matter, with officers of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the PNP and its Drug Enforcement Group, and the PDEA invited.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in January licensed the reopening of an inquiry into the battle on medication by the administration of former president Rodrigo Duterte, a probe that Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla described as an “irritant.”
The authorities has since expressed its intention to attraction the resumption of the inquiry earlier than the ICC Appeals Chamber.
Government data present that there have been not less than 6,200 drug suspects killed in police operations from June 2016 to November 2021, however a number of human rights teams have refuted this and estimate the precise dying toll to be a lot increased. — BM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
