Certainly, Bohol local government officials move in making Bohol a tough place for drug dealers is making headway.
If there is a single most stunning imagery that the two years long crusade against drugs which police colonel Dennis Agustin is leading, it is a train that is heading places.
We once believed the contention is nothing but a sniff of bad air. Air. Nothing substantial.
But that there is somebody high up the government ladder tinkering with the tracks shifting the campaign train to wherever directions they want, is now a railroading truth.
We have seen the folly of all these claims of victories against drugs. Quixotic because, like the man who fought windmills, fighting drugs in Bohol has not been as kind to the police director as its is as foolish fighting a lost cause.
By all indications, the number of sniffing advocates and the peddlers now languishing or were given a the time at the slammers, could be numerous.
At the Provincial Peace and Order Council reports of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, if one does not notice something regularly laughable, then that one is getting calloused.
In over 358 cases filed against drug personalities since January to July of this year, we have heard of only 2 people convicted and sentenced. And 12 are acquitted. 33 are dismissed.
No. not funny. Not at all.
The problem could be this serious: cops are damned they could only pound flimsy cases.
And the prosecution, seeing how risky it really is for the police to hand the time to drug criminals, also smell fear when walking out of the courtroom after a hearing.
So, perhaps they convict on grounds beyond reasonable doubt. which the police could not really pile up.
Here, figures the allegations of Capitol-high-up spreading a shroud of influence on drugs.
And if Capitol, out of its overflowing benevolence gives monthly allowances to the Judiciary, that influence peddling matters gravely.
So when the NBI swooped to Bohol to perform raids and getting over P5 million worth of drugs, we hear complaints of non-coordination.
Why, was it because the culprits were not notified by the usual intelligence grapevine about the raid? For if there really was no coordination and they netted that huge haul nevertheless, it is as honorable. Criticizing using the usual no-coordination script is just plain wicked.
Here, we reiterate: it is not Capitol complaining of no-coordination. It is a groaner-whiner close to Capitol.
And that no-Capitol groaner is not whining about why Capitol is apparently sitting on the findings of the packets of shabu recovered at the government hub.
And this no-Capitol whiner is not complaining why it took the Provincial Legal Office over two, nearing three months to reveal its findings publicly when investigating it uses public funds.
Or why not one employee at the Capitol has been presented when local officials have admitted some personnel working at the Capitol have tested positive for drugs.
So here, certainly, Bohol local government officials move in making Bohol a tough place for drug dealers is making headway. And it’s a train barreling straight to perdition.
What is bad is that, it has us on that same train.
These and the emboldening bulk of drugs confiscated from the streets can only be because truly, somebody is fooling Bohol and that somebody wields the strings to make us puppets.