Sa kaniyang interpellation sa pagdinig ng House QuadComm, nagbahagi si Rep. Gerville Luistro ng pahayag sa paulit-ulit na pagbanggit ng isang narco list. Sa pahayag na ito, idiniin niya kung gaano kakontrobersyal at kahirap i-validate ang mga pangalang kasama sa listahan.
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00:00I'm about to conclude. I just have one quick question for PDEA.
00:07PDEA sir,
00:09Palagi pong nababanggit itong narco list.
00:13Even from the time of the three Chinese drug lords
00:18to the time of PCSO board secretary Wesley Barayuga
00:23and now we are confronted by the killing incident as alleged by Kerwin
00:29committed against Mayor Espinosa
00:33who allegedly was included as well in the narco list.
00:37Can you please enlighten us?
00:40Ito ho ba chinek nyo if during that time the name of Mayor Espinosa
00:45indeed appear in the narco list?
00:48Mr. Chair, Your Honor,
00:50yes, the names of the father and son appear in the original list.
00:57Kerwin is listed as a drug trafficker.
01:03The category of the father whether pusher or trafficker is not listed
01:09but in the list he is already indicated as neutralized
01:15so he was dead already.
01:20Neutralized because dead?
01:23Yes.
01:24So when was PDEA included in the narco list?
01:27Was it after the killing incident or subsequent to the killing incident?
01:34In the original list, it was already after the death of Mayor Espinosa.
01:40If you are saying, PDEA, that it was after the incident
01:44it means that Mayor Espinosa was already dead when he was included in the drug list?
01:50Is that so?
01:52No, Your Honor.
01:54It means that Mayor Espinosa is included in the list
01:58but however, as the period or as the drug campaign continued
02:06he would eventually be indicated as neutralized
02:10so we could not ascertain whether he was a drug pusher, drug user
02:15or whatever was his participation, Your Honor.
02:18Mr. Chair, I wish to manifest this drug list, the narco list
02:22is indeed very controversial.
02:25As a matter of fact, as we go along our investigation
02:28I have been asking our resource speaker
02:30whether during the hearing or off the hearing
02:34as to the origin, the people who validated, the veracity
02:38and no one can indeed vouch as to the genuineness of the names
02:43which were included in the list.
02:45So I just want to raise this concern
02:47that being included in the list would really compromise
02:56not only the safety but the entire life of the people who are in this list.
03:00So I hope we can come up with something, validate
03:04and come up with the true personalities
03:06who must be included in the narco list, Mr. Chair.
03:09To conclude, Mr. Chair, for whatever motive does Kerwin Espinosa have today
03:15we welcome the information he gave, subject of course to stringent scrutiny.
03:23While recantation of testimony,
03:26while the recantation of testimony is frowned upon by the court.
03:32This will give us an opportunity to re-examine
03:35what really transpired relative to the raid on the house of Mayor Espinosa.
03:42The raid and killing against Mayor Espinosa which happened in Baybay Leyte
03:48including the indictment and the incarceration of our resource speaker
03:53and including those he named which includes the former Senator Laila de Lima.
03:59It is clear, Mr. Chair, that the government continued the fight against illegal drugs
04:05as it is indeed a menace to the Philippine society.
04:08But let us all be reminded, in a civil society like ours,
04:13we need to observe the rule of law.
04:16No less than the Philippine Constitution provides, Section 1, Article 3,
04:22no person shall be deprived of life, liberty and property without due process of law.
04:29What happened to Kerwin and his father,
04:31if indeed true, is a complete violation of this constitutional guarantee.