What Duterte Needs to Check Illegal Drugs and Corruption is a "Super Council"
Posted on Thursday, 2 February 2017
What Duterte Needs to Check
Illegal Drugs and Corruption is a “Super
Council”
By Apolinario Villalobos
One glaring flaw in the government system
which causes all the flacks in its effort to check the proliferation of
corruption and illegal drugs is the lack of concerted effort due to the absence
of effective coordination and instantaneous action of all agencies concerned
with interrelated functions and objectives. By “agency”, I mean “office”, be it
a bureau, a unit of a department, the department itself, and all levels of the
local government. I this regard, I am referring to the Philippine National
Police (PNP), Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of the Interior
and Local Government (DILG).
The above is very ideal. However, there is
a big question as regards “trust”, because the mentioned agencies are not 100%
trustworthy. Betrayal is not far from being committed by the corrupt official
who happens to have become a member of the Super Council. In the past, before
raids can be conducted, for instance, in drug laboratories and drug dens, the
targets have already been notified by their cohorts in the participating
government agency, and who are privy to the operation. In this regard, there is
an urgent need to purge the said agencies of scalawags before the Super Council
can be organized…the DOJ with its PDEA and NBi, the PNP and the lower courts of
the Judiciary.
As to the checking of the trustworthiness
of people in the government, and whose expertise the president can harness, the
latter should check their historical performance. He should also make it clear
that whoever gives him wrong information should be made accountable. He should
learn his lesson from the embarrassing case that put the Bureau of Immigration
into the limelight, with those involved being his appointees.
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