Stop bang bang MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 07/09/2010

Stop bang bang

MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 07/09/2010 P-Noy’s spokesman Edwin Lacierda declared that the P-Noy administration has no policy of extra-judicial killings. “The President will not tolerate extra-judicial killings under his administration.” What else can he say? But the simplistic statement merely echoes what GMA, Gibo Teodoro and Bert Gonzales used to say. As GMA used to do, they have created a Task Force Baldomero to investigate the Aklan Bayan Muna provincial coordinator’s killing in a business as usual vein. We would have expected P-Noy to order Philippine National Police Director General Jesus Verzosa and PNP Western Visayas Director Samuel Pagdilao to come up with a solution within seven days. P-Noy could have ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct a parallel probe and also giving them a seven-day deadline.  What did the PNP say on the killing? Gen. Jesus Verzosa proposed the “creation of a multi sectoral task force to look into the phenomenon.” That’s an admission of PNP incompetence. Remember Task Force Usig under then Gen. Avelino Razon? They came out with nothing. New PNP spokesman, Senior Supt. Agrimero Cruz Jr., was even unbelievable. He said the PNP was “looking into local politics, noting the supposed heated rivalry between Baldomero and others who ran for the town council seat of Lezo, Aklan.” Give us a break. He was just one of 10 councilors. He did not run for mayor or vice mayor.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100709com4.html

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