Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. was recently
killed while in the custody of the authorities. The circumstances surrounding
the death of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. are questionable. The death
seems to be premeditated.
With that fact, Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte still stood by the actions of the policemen. This statement of
President Duterte was made with the idea that Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa
Sr. is a drug lord and deserved to experience the horrors of his actions,
death.
Rolan “Kerwin” Espinosa, son of the late Albuera
Mayor Espinosa Sr., is now going to be repatriated. It is said that he would
give light on the drug trade and connections regarding the “Blue Book” and “Pink
Book” which supposedly contains the names of the personalities involved in the
drug trade, the people who received and accepted drug money. Let us take note
that Kerwin Espinosa went into hiding after the issuance of the Shoot-to-Kill
order by the government.
Before anything else, we must take into
consideration the question of security. Mayor Espinosa Sr. was in the custody
and security of the government when the killing took place. He was supposedly secured
by the authorities in Davao, the hometown of the current President Duterte. Now
this puts into question any attempt by the government at securing Kerwin
Espinosa anywhere in the Philippines.
The best thing to do, I believe, is to have a third
party take over the security of Kerwin Espinosa. A private security firm should
be more than enough to handle the security of the life of Kerwin Espinosa and
the guarantee to show up at any hearing or inquiry. Sorry to say, but we cannot
leave the security of anyone involved, or suspected to be involved, in the drug
trade to a government which vows to kill anyone connected to illegal drugs, much
more a government which failed to protect the life of a person who surrendered
and is already in their custody.
I am for the campaign of the government against
illegal drugs and I believe that people who use drugs to destroy the lives of
other people should pay for their crimes and be removed from this earth. But,
if we wish to secure a drug-free future, we must cut the trunk and not the
branches. We must secure the life of Kerwin Espinosa, at least until he has shared
all that he knows with respect to the illegal drug trade.
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