Duterte defends cops that involved in Parajinog Slay
President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday justified the bloody police raid in Ozamiz City which resulted in the death of Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog, his wife and 13 others.
Last Sunday, members of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group raided homes of alleged illegal drug personalities in Ozamiz City in Misamis Occidental.
Duterte said it was part of his order to the police and the military to kill alleged illegal drug personalities.
"(To) the police and the military (I) said: 'Make sure that their enemies are dead.' Otherwise, the other guy can still pull the trigger, you would end up with a dead police or a dead military soldier," Duterte told reporters in a media briefing on Wednesday.
He added that his order to the police and the military was to destroy organizations, both suppliers and users, involved in the illegal drug trade.
Malacañang earlier said that the raids in Ozamiz City were part of the government's intensified war on drugs.
“The administration vowed to intensify the drug campaign,” presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said last Sunday.
Abella added that the Parojinogs were included on the president's list of personalities allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade.
Meanwhile, Ozamiz City Vice Mayor Nova Princess Parojinog-Echavez urged Duterte to look into the raids in her family's residences, leading to the death of her parents and 13 others.
“I am asking President Duterte to investigate this. He should look at it thoroughly. He knows my father,” she said.
She claimed that the illegal drugs and firearms reportedly found at their residences were planted and that the raiding team removed hard drives of the closed-circuit television cameras installed in their homes.
Philippine National Police chief Ronald dela Rosa admitted that it was wrong for the CIDG to remove the hard drive of the cameras installed in the Parojinog residences.
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