The drug allegations thrown at Liberal Party (LP) members Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon and former Interior Secretary Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Roxas II are claims that were fabricated by the Duterte administration, Senator Francis \u201cKiko\u201d Pangilinan said on Friday.
\n\u201cThis is a joke fabricated by the administration to divert the attention of the public away from the country\u2019s controversies like the P6.4 billion shabu smuggling at the BOC, and the everyday killings brought by anomalistic and abusive PNP\u2019s,\u201d the senator said on Friday, adding that such allegations will not silence them from exposing the truth.
\nPangilinan also called on the authorities to chase those who smuggled the P6.4 billion drugs at the BOC if they really want to know the top syndicates in the country.
\n\u201cThe evidence is planted and fabricated to press the opposition and the evidence is forged so that the conspirator can escape and be freed,\u201d Pangilinan said.
\n\u201cWe should speak and expose the mistakes,\u201d he added.
\nThe senator’s statement came after Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will consider the affidavit of Ricky Serenio, confessed bagman of the Berya drug cartel who alleged that Drilon and Roxas were \u201cprotectors\u201d of drug lord Melvin Odicta, who was killed August last year at the Caticlan port.<\/p>\n
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