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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
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THE SENATE inquiry into the kidnap-for-ransom cases allegedly perpetrated by members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the guise of Oplan Tokhang starts tomorrow, Jan. 26. The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs sought the probe in the wake of the abduction of Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo who was eventually killed inside Camp Crame, the national police headquarters, in Quezon City.
This was not the first time “tokhang” was used as cover-up for kidnap-for-ransom activities, according to committee chairperson Sen. Panfilo Lacson, citing an incident last August 2016 in Bulacan where he said a friend was taken from his own home on the pretext of his alleged drug activities.
That the Korean businessman was killed right inside the national police headquarters is already disturbing. This is serious. The crime was carried out in the heart of the national police – right where its leadership is holding office – and everybody in the police organization, including General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, is acting like they’re clueless about it. Ignorance, it seems, has become a convenient refuge of scoundrels. Something fishy is definitely going on in Camp Crame.
Has the scoundrel within the Philippine National Police found a new money-making machine – the so-called tokhang-for-ransom? PNP’s Oplan Tokhang involves police officers visiting houses of suspected drug users and traders to persuade them to stop their involvement in the illegal drugs trade. Have the scalawags in uniform found a convenient cover for their criminal activities?
There must be full accountability for the Camp Crame kidnap-murder incident. The murder of the Korean businessman has exposed the rottenness and corruption of the police institution. It points to the impunity on the part of law enforcers.
The so-called war on drugs is doomed to fail if the implementors are corrupt and themselves involved in various criminal activities.
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