Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque told CNN Philippines on Saturday that the President’s request has already reached Congress so the NBI can “investigate properly.”
Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, chairman of the House Committee on Dangerous Drugs, said the panel’s hearing is temporarily suspended following Duterte’s pronouncement. “If we feel that our questions are not answered and we feel that there could be a legislation that we can propose then we will proceed,” he said.
Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, a former Philippine National Police chief, also set for next week the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs’ hearing into the incident. He believes it could be poor coordination that led to the exchange of fire between Quezon City police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives near the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant on Commonwealth Avenue on Wednesday.PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva and PNP chief General Debold Sinas said their men were both conducting legitimate buy-bust operations, and insisted they coordinated.
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