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Drug trade will return under GCQ–Barbers

Maricel CruzbyMaricel Cruz
May 31, 2020, 10:00 pm
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The chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Dangerous Drugs Committee on Sunday alerted the National Police on the possible return of the drug trade under the general community quarantine.

“The drug trade will return with a vengeance after hibernating for almost three months. Our police should be more vigilant and monitor strictly the movement of people under the general community quarantine, where more people will be out doing serious business while others might be out looking for ways of getting the new high in the time of COVID,” Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, the panel chairman, said.

During the GCQ, more quarantine rules are relaxed and more people are allowed to leave their homes, presumably for work in vital industries and essential sectors, even as the figures on COVID-19 infection continue to rise sharply at an alarming rate.

Barbers alleged that the drug personalities lost billions of pesos in drug trade opportunities when COVID-19 forced the government to declare a lockdown in Luzon in mid-March, followed by lockdowns in almost the entire country as the contagion spreads in the provinces. Thus, he warns that the drug syndicates will be flexing their muscles slowly to recoup their losses as the nation prepares to return to the new normal and people begin to resume their daily lives.

“These drug syndicates have long prepared for this new normal and have planned out well their next moves amid the fear and confusion. While the people and our law enforcers are busy mapping strategies on how to avoid mass concentration and activities, we might overlook the drug trade resumption,” Barbers said.

“I strongly agree with the Honorable Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, Edgar Mary Sarmiento, that our seaports, airports and all bus terminals, cargoes and vehicles should be thoroughly inspected and strictly monitored if we are dead serious in stopping these criminals in their activities that put COVID-19 to shame,” Barbers added.

“I trust that the PDEA will likewise work double time as usual, to prevent these syndicates from plying their trade. I congratulate the new PDEA Director Wilkins Villanueva and I give him my full backing, being an old timer and an insider,” Barbers said.

Tags: COVID-19Edgar Mary SarmientoHonorable Chairman of the House Committee on TransportationRobert Ace Barbers
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