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Sunday, February 5, 2017
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MANILA – Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Saturday said the leadership of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) should also conduct “housecleaning” amid its members’ alleged involvement in the kidnap-slay of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo last October.
“This is a serious setback. The NBI has to do some housecleaning to regain public trust,” Pimentel said in a statement.
He said the NBI is “squandering a precious opportunity” to modernize in light of the Jee kidnap-slay case.
Pimentel, principal sponsor of the Senate Bill signed into law last June as Republic Act No. 10867, or the National Bureau of Investigation Reorganization and Modernization Act, said in the statement that the supposed involvement of ranking NBI officials in the incident “has the effect of reversing the direction that we want a modern NBI to achieve.”
He added that NBI director Dante Gierran should take a “firmer stand in imposing discipline on NBI personnel and avoid another embarrassment to the government.”
“New technology and improved methods of investigation and crime-detection will not work if the human component is defective,” Pimentel said. “The NBI has to retrain personnel and weed out the misfits.”
Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II had announced that four NBI officials have been relieved of their posts in connection with the kidnap-slay case.
On orders of President Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine National Police chief director general Ronald dela Rosa disbanded anti-ilegal drugs units to focus on ridding the police ranks of scalawags.
Dela Rosa’s order was also in connection with the Jee kidnap-slay case, where several policemen have also been tagged.
The NBI has also been barred by Duterte from conducting anti-drugs operations.
He has tasked the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to lead his war on drugs. (GMA News)
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