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BY PRINCE GOLEZ
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MANILA – Western Visayas is one of the Philippines’ most drug-affected regions, stressed Director General Ronald dela Rosa.
The Philippine National Police chief made this remark during a Senate hearing on the death of Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. of Albuera, Leyte.
Espinosa is one of the many local government chief executives the government has tagged to the drug trade.
“Living personalities” engaged in drug trafficking are in National Capital Region, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and Regions 3 (Central Luzon), 4-A (Calabarzon), 6 (Western Visayas), 7 (Central Visayas), and 8 (Eastern Visayas), dela Rosa said on Wednesday, Nov. 23.
He also mentioned the slain Western Visayas drug lord Melvin “Boyet” Odicta Sr.
“Region 6 pa, Your Honor,” dela Rosa told Sen. Richard Gordon, chairman of the committee on justice. “Iyong kay Odicta. Odicta, Region 6.”
Odicta and wife Meriam were shot to death on Aug. 29 at the Caticlan jetty port in Malay, Aklan a few days after they appeared before Interior secretary Ismael Sueno in Camp Crame to deny their involvement in drugs.
Odicta was the drug lord “Dragon,” according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 6./PN
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