The orders given to Lt. Jovie Espenido by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte was that he was
free to kill all those who would dare cross the line in his relentless anti-illegal drugs campaign.
Senator Richard Gordon would not have any of it and
totally disagrees with the Chief Executive’s order.
The senator, however, said the usual ‘’kill’’ word
in the President Duterte’s language was his usual way of scaring those in
involved in the multi-billion-peso illegal drugs trade.
Senator Richard Gordon (photo credit to MB) |
“Iba klase si Presidente,’’ Gordon, chairman of the
Senate Blue Ribbon, and Justice and Human Rights Committees, told Senate mediamen
recently.
‘’You don’t mean that, do you? (If it is), that is
wrong,’’ the senator said, a statement apparently addressed to the President.
‘’I don’t agree with it. Magingat lang tayo. You
might fall on hour own sword. I don’t have to agree with everything he says. Di
ako nagpapaguwapo. (Let us be careful. By saying out loud, I will be doing my
duty as friend,’’ he added.
Gordon recalled that during the recent visit by the
President in Russia, he winced when Duterte said ‘’I will kill you if you
bring drugs to my people.’’
That is the way the President’s way of scaring the
daylights of the Russian businessmen, Gordon explains.
Espenido’s
new assignment
President Duterte recently appointed Espenido as
the new Bacolod police chief and that he was given the order of the President
that he was free to kill those who cross the line in his anti-illegal drugs
campaign.
‘’Bacolod is badly hit [by drugs] now. I placed
Espenido there. I said, ‘Go there and you are free to kill everybody. Son of a
b****, start killing there. The two of us will then go to jail’,” Duterte said
in a mix of Filipino and English in a speech in Manila.
The President was also as saying he does “not
care about human rights”, and issued a “shoot-to-kill” order if drug suspects
resist arrest.
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