By Mortz C. Ortigoza
If our law enforcement agencies could identify expeditiously the
killer, his accomplice and principal on the spate of extra-judicial killings
and assassination in our country – just like what happened in the Percy Lapid, Davao
City model Yvonette Chua, and some of the 34 ’sabungeroos” (cockfighting aficionados), would be murderers in the Philippines would be discouraged to do
their dastardly acts.
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Protesters march towards a town square during a rally calling for justice for the victims of alleged extra-judicial killings of local villagers, leaders and other human rights activists in Negros province and other townships in the central Philippines and other parts of the country in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Look how an active police under the administration of President
Bongbong Marcos had done to slowly recoup the confidence of our people to law
enforcers when through effective sleuthing on those security cameras, videos of
other people capturing the footages of the corpus
delecti (body of the crime), and the
come-on of being qualified on the Witness Protection, Security and Benefit
Program of the country (and spared with
eventual conviction) even killers like Joel Escorial and Army Private First Class
Delfin Sialsa of fire breathing commentator Lapid and the stunner Chua,
respectively, would easily rat to the cops like what they did to then Bureau of
Corrections Director-General Gerald Q. Bantag and cohorts and Brig. Gen.
Jesus Durante, III (former President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief security) and ilk.
If the Marcos Administration could abruptly identify the principals and
the killers behind the abductions in various occasions and places of those 34 sabungeros, the
unabated extra-judicial killings and assassination in the Philippines would be
mitigated significantly.
These sabungeros were suspected
killed because they did e-sabong "website cloning" or spoofing
and sabotaging their roosters so they would lose while secretly betting
on their opponents’ entries. Even though
they committed a nefarious act against their fellow humans, the latter have no right
to murder those involved. They should sue them instead in court and wait how blinded
Lady Justice – the Roman goddess
Justicia - to convict or absolve them.
The spate extra judicial killings – or what the Filipinos bastardized
called “salvaging” have been unabated – specially during the term of Duterte
where cops have blood on their hands – against our defenseless citizens
suspected if not actually selling narcotics because nobody courageously file a
criminal case against the culprits.
Under Duterte, life was cheap based on the 12, 000 who were killed
according to Human Rights Watch because they were involved in the selling of
illegal drugs.
A retired police colonel, who asked on conditioned of anonymity, told
us media men in a social function that assassination and murder swell during
the Duterte Administration compared to the present dispensation because there
was an order allegedly in the higher echelon of the government in the first
dispensation as part of the quota in the war of drugs.
With a pro-active citizenry and an efficient law enforcement in the
police and the National Bureau of Investigation resolving with dispatch those
murder cases and apprehending those malefactors, President Marcos, Department
of Interior & Local Government Secretary Benjur Abalos, Philippine
National Police Chief Director Gen. Rodolfo Azurin and his successors could
ride with the glory and plaudits given by this grateful nation. These would be
the legacy of the Marcos Administration that it could reaps upon ending its
reign in June 30, 2028.
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