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January 30, 2018
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SO, the Philippine National Police is again taking a more active role in President Duterte’s war on drugs and has relaunched its “Oplan Tokhang” yesterday. This time, according to Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, the mistakes in the drug war “will no longer be repeated.”
We hope so. There’s no doubt that a more calibrated campaign is needed to solve the problem. The Philippines has become a hub for international drug syndicates. There were reports of “foreign investors” funding large-scale manufacture and operations of illegal drugs such as shabu. “Drug investments” in the country should be pinpointed.
In Iloilo City for example, recent arrests of drug pushing suspects led to the discovery in Arevalo district of a “shabu bodega” – not necessarily a warehouse but a rest house that served as hub of the prohibited substance and where pushers would get their stocks for peddling.
Where does this “bodega” get its shabu supply? Who’s dumping huge volumes of it there? Surely, there are “shabu investors” in this illegal operation. They should be identified, arrested and prosecuted.
We have to attack the drug problem at the source, which is the funding, manufacture, and distribution of illegal drugs. Unless we go straight to the source, we will never truly eradicate the drug menace in Iloilo City and elsewhere in the country.
Drug trafficking is an organized crime on a massive scale. We will never make any substantial headway in the anti-drug campaign if the sources of these drugs are left unchecked, and even if our law enforcers will continue to make arrests or kill pushers every hour of everyday.
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