MSOpinon The PNP, AFP conundrum “Having been involved in drug rehabilitation for some years, just isolating drug users and addicts in rehabilitation centers won’t cure drug addiction, because drug addiction is both a psychological and physiological--
“Having been involved in drug rehabilitation for some years, just isolating drug users and addicts in rehabilitation centers won’t cure drug addiction, because drug addiction is both a psychological and physiological problem.”
Abalos had said “we cannot continue fighting illegal drugs when the person behind you shoots you in the back.” On the other side of the coin is that mere suspicion seems final to many PNP generals and colonels who have been members of the PNP for many years.Clearly, what people expected was that if Abalos had any evidence against members of the police force who have links to illegal drugs, just file cases against them.
This led to the irrevocable resignation of Department of National Defense OIC General Jose Faustino, who claimed he wasn’t consulted, followed by courtesy resignations of military people who were identified with him . This, to me, is clearly very dangerous, where the military gets divided because their loyalties are not to the flag but to persons who have given benefits to their favorites.To a certain extent, I am glad this conundrum within the AFP has been exposed.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines that is supposed to ensure the air space of the Philippine skies used by a circuit breaker, which the Senate and to many could only only be traced to the total incompetence, inefficiency, mismanagement and laxity of the CAAP. I say the killings and more killings policy of Duterte could only result in a culture of impunity like what we had where “extrajudicial” killings were prevalent.
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