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The creation of an independent panel for fact-finding and investigation of the extrajudicial killings relative drug summary executions of the previous administration in its controversial war on drugs is pushed by House of Representatives Minority Leader Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan.
“We urge the President to form a panel – similar to the Agrava Fact-Finding Board – that will probe the summary killings and identify all individuals who may be held criminally liable,” Libanan said.
“Just like the Agrava Board, the proposed commission should be independent from the legislative and executive branches of government.” Libanan added.
Further, Libanan said that the panel should consist of distinguished individuals who are highly regarded for their fairness and impartiality, and who are not politically aligned.
Before his present position as 4Ps party-list Representative, Libanan, a lawyer by profession, served as a chairperson of the House committee on justice when he represented Eastern Samar’s lone congressional district.
“The Marcos administration places the highest importance on the fair dispensation of justice and on the universal observance of rule of law,” Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin earlier said about the ongoing investigations into the summary execution of drug suspects.
AGRAVA BOARD:
The Agrava Board is a five-member fact-finding Board that investigated the August 21, 1983 assassination of Former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. at the Manila International Airport.
First woman Judge and retired appellate court Justice Corazon Agrava chaired the Fact-Finding Board. Lawyer Luciano Salazar, businessman Dante Santos, educator Amado Dizon, and labor leader Ernesto Herrera, who was later elected senator were members.
The Board was able to take testimonies from 194 witnesses at 146 public hearings and examined more than 1,400 photographic exhibits within a period of 11 months.
In its conclusion, the Board said that Aquino was killed by a military conspiracy let by then Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Fabian Ver.
Two years after Ver died in Thailand in 1998, the Sandigan Bayan sentenced 16 soldiers, including Brig. Gen. Luther Custodio to double life imprisonment in 1990 for the assassination of Aquino and fall guy Rolando Galman.(CJ/JMM)
- Calbayog Journal, October 18, 2024
The creation of an independent panel for fact-finding and investigation of the extrajudicial killings relative drug summary executions of the previous administration in its controversial war on drugs is pushed by House of Representatives Minority Leader Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan.
“We urge the President to form a panel – similar to the Agrava Fact-Finding Board – that will probe the summary killings and identify all individuals who may be held criminally liable,” Libanan said.
“Just like the Agrava Board, the proposed commission should be independent from the legislative and executive branches of government.” Libanan added.
Further, Libanan said that the panel should consist of distinguished individuals who are highly regarded for their fairness and impartiality, and who are not politically aligned.
Before his present position as 4Ps party-list Representative, Libanan, a lawyer by profession, served as a chairperson of the House committee on justice when he represented Eastern Samar’s lone congressional district.
“The Marcos administration places the highest importance on the fair dispensation of justice and on the universal observance of rule of law,” Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin earlier said about the ongoing investigations into the summary execution of drug suspects.
AGRAVA BOARD:
The Agrava Board is a five-member fact-finding Board that investigated the August 21, 1983 assassination of Former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. at the Manila International Airport.
First woman Judge and retired appellate court Justice Corazon Agrava chaired the Fact-Finding Board. Lawyer Luciano Salazar, businessman Dante Santos, educator Amado Dizon, and labor leader Ernesto Herrera, who was later elected senator were members.
The Board was able to take testimonies from 194 witnesses at 146 public hearings and examined more than 1,400 photographic exhibits within a period of 11 months.
In its conclusion, the Board said that Aquino was killed by a military conspiracy let by then Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Fabian Ver.
Two years after Ver died in Thailand in 1998, the Sandigan Bayan sentenced 16 soldiers, including Brig. Gen. Luther Custodio to double life imprisonment in 1990 for the assassination of Aquino and fall guy Rolando Galman.(CJ/JMM)
- Calbayog Journal, October 18, 2024
