Easier said than done, if unwilling
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
The Justice chief was reported to have given the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) an ultimatum to immediately arrest fugitive Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson.
Intelligence reports, she said, point to his being in the country, and she doesn’t want the public to think that the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the NBI are so inutile that they cannot implement an outstanding warrant of arrest.
“It cannot simply be a case of monitoring. That’s untenable,” she was quoted as saying.
But surely the Justice chief knows that the NBI is probably reluctant to arrest Lacson as he has many friends there, and even the big chief at the NBI used to be his close aide when the fugitive senator was the Philippine National Police chief?
One would think that the Noynoy-appointed NBI chief would have gone hammer and tongs after Lacson and get him arrested, if only to have a feather in his cap. Lacson is certainly a high-profile fugitive and arresting him would be considered one of his major achievements. But thus far, the NBI has been failing to arrest Lacson..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101201com2.html
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