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Sunday, March 18, 2018
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CRITICS called the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) resolution to drop drug trafficking charges against self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa a “travesty” and “an indication of the department’s lack of credibility, integrity and basic common sense.”
Espinosa, in a series of Senate hearings and while under oath, admitted to earning P50 million yearly in illegal drug trade and maintaining an illegal drug business. In a 14-page resolution, State prosecutors also dismissed drug charges against businessman Peter Lim and 20 others for “uncorroborated statements” and “lack of evidence.”
If this is not indicative of the double standard of justice in this country, we don’t know what is. The poor are subjected to killings and curtailment of rights while we are forced to watch an outrageous spectacle” the DOJ being so obviously used to favor kumpares and self-confessed drug lords.
Here’s another – when the DOJ implicates more than 600 individuals without an iota of evidence against them and stubbornly peddles the narrative that said individuals are “terrorists”, what does that make the agency?
But what could probably top this one? – the DOJ provisionally admitting pork barrel scam principal suspect Janet Lim Napoles to its Witness Protection Program (WPP).
WPP seeks to encourage a person who has witnessed or has knowledge of the commission of a crime to testify before a court or an investigating authority by protecting the person from revenge and from economic dislocation.
This prompted Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III to ask: “Do some people in the DOJ really believe that Napoles is qualified to be a state witness in the pork barrel scam?”
He rightly summed up what’s happening at the DOJ in two words: “Unbelievable.” “Crazy.”
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