đź“·Eduardo Acierto | Screenshot from Facebook live
ASIDE from small-time drug peddlers, the previous administration trained its guns to drug-busters, says a dismissed police officer who claimed that he was forced to go into hiding after stumbling upon evidence linking former President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic adviser to a multi-billion illegal drug trafficking scheme.
During the hearing of the House Committee on Dangerous Drugs, cashiered Col. Eduardo Acierto, who used to work for the Philippine National Police-Drug Enforcement Group (PNP-DEG) positively identified former Presidential economic adviser Michael Yang whom they discovered involved in the lucrative illegal drug trade.
“Ako rin po ang parehong Police Col. Eduardo Acierto na matagal na ipinapahanap at ipinapapatay ni Pangulong Duterte sa military at kapwa ko pulis,” Acierto was quoted as saying during the House probe into the P3.6-billion worth of shabu found inside a warehouse in Mexico, Pampanga.
Interestingly, the warehouse is reportedly owned by Yang.
“Pinapapatay po ako ni Duterte dahil talisod ko at pina-i-imbestigahan ko si Michael Yang at Allan Lim na malapit nilang kaibigan ni Bong Go,” he added.
Acierto claimed he prepared in 2017 a confidential report about Yang and Lim, which he submitted to then PNP chief Oscar Albayalde, former Senator Richard Gordon, and former Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.
He however felt disappointed that the administration didn’t lift a finger to check the veracity of his report.
Acierto also had a nine-minute video where he provided a detailed matrix on the supposed involvement of Yang and Lim in the operations of clandestine shabu laboratories in Davao and Cagayan de Oro cities and their connection with alleged Chinese drug lord Johnson Chua.
Acierto said he also informed Duterte, then-Special Assistant to the President and now Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, and then-PNP chief and now Senator Ronald dela Rosa about Yang and Lim’s alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade.
What’s worse, he added, he was ordered dismissed from the police service over the alleged sale of AK-47 assault rifles to communist rebels in what appears to be an effort to silence him – just like what happened to his buddy Police Capt. Lito Perote whom, he claimed, was abducted in Bacolod City and believed to have been summarily executed too. (ANGEL F. JOSE)
