Presidential Communications and Operations Office chief Herminio Coloma recently made an astounding assertion.
In the national news dailies maintained by commercial media whom President-elect Rodrigo Duterte finally chastised for making a mockery of journalism, Coloma jumped on the opportunity to credit-grab.
True to the task assigned to him, communications experts expect Coloma to be the loudspeaker and exact epitome of the president, even in the waning days of the presidency.
On the successive raids and anti drug operations, Duterte has nothing to do with it, Coloma asserted.
Certainly, the raids and operations interestingly happen within the dying days of the administration of President Aquino.
But obviously, something is worth the nose-pinching here.
One, while the Coloma assertion is, in some sense, correct, something doesn’t make full sense here.
Seemingly, Coloma is saying the Aquino Administration was really capable of starting intense anti drug operations but yet it did not. Along this drift, we can tie the loose end and find a dangerous assumption: the recent connection with the DOJ’s Delima and the pictures of the president spending loose time at the country’s meth labs at Bilibid is beyond media hype.
A recent picture of the President, Sec Delima at the Bilibid tells more than Coloma’s lame attempt to save face for the administration. If indeed the
Duterte election did not cause the cowering of police and anti drug operatives, then somebody ordered them not to act against drugs then.
Indeed, if the clear and expressed Duterte warnings spiced with curses and unsubstantiated gory deaths credited to him, then how does Coloma account for clear surrender of drug personalities to police authorities for fear of liquidations.
So, Coloma is also claiming it is the Administration of PNoy doing the summary executions of drug personalities too?
