Sen. Panfilo Lacson. INQUIRER FILE / LYN RILLON
While praying for the safety of Filipinos amid the inclement weather, Senator Panfilo Lacson said he was also hoping that floods wipe out the one ton of shabu that allegedly slipped through the Manila International Container Port (MICP).
“My early morning prayer today: God Almighty, keep the people in low-lying areas safe from the floods; sana, inanod ng baha ang isang toneladang shabu na naipuslit sa Bureau of Customs,” Lacson wrote in a tweet on Sunday.
The senator is reacting to reports that ₱6.8 billion-worth of illegal drugs were allegedly brought into the country by a Taiwanese drug syndicate.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) revealed this on Friday after they recovered several magnetic lifters at a warehouse in General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite.
“This is very saddening. ₱6.8 billion-worth of illegal drugs are now circulating anew in our streets,” PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino said in a statement.
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Elements from PDEA-National Capital Region confirmed that the magnetic lifters once contained shabu after drug-sniffing dogs detected traces of it.
The discovery came three days after the Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized an abandoned container at the MICP. The container had two magnetic lifters filled with 500 kilograms of shabu with an estimated street value of P4.3 billion. /cbb