Governor Edgar Chatto has been insistent about a synchronized fight against drugs, a fight that will snowball from the barangays to the city, leaving drug personalities no place to run and hide.
We can always understand that. For the past years, Bohol has never “hosted” drugs as problematic as this.
Then provincial commander Constantino Barot showed not much drug apprehensions. Sources even revealed that an expressed instruction to the police stated: drug is not a police priority. Let the PDEA do it.
As it appears, it seems a legitimate order. The PNP is not principally tasked with the drug problem, as the law provides. On it are usually unnamed PDEA agents.
But, intelligence community reports can never be stopped; not even by powerful people who want it stopped. Like water seeking its own level, reports have a nasty habit of getting to popping in analysts tables who treat them as A-one.
Since Police Director Dennis Agustin took over from Col. Barot, the biggest puzzle started to take shape.
As it appears, Colonel Agustin pieced a puzzle so tough to solve that lives of a police chief and several officers have to be offered to enlighten us about the diabolical ogre we are facing.
Anybody following the high stakes drug drama would agree, when the police shrugged off the drugs responsibility, they allowed the seeds to root enough to send shivers upon police and prosecutors pursuing drug cases.
Which led many to ask: Has Capitol been involved? A pesky candidate has also accused Gov. Chatto of this.
While we are not that quick to the conclusion that Capitol is protecting, things are shaping. And the shape, unfortunately, is that of a fat lie sitting at the Capitol.
Today, we hit the second month after three sachets of drugs were found at the Capitol.
As much as we wanted the full details of the story, it took a brave old man, weeks to leak a plot to hide the drugs. And another month before an order to investigate was issued.
Two months of investigations, and all Capitol can do is accuse the old man and his school of planting drugs at the Capitol? While this alleged school is not entirely drug-free, it would be tough to imagine how Capitol could side sweep into a fallacy of ad hominem just to draw flak away from the government.
You see, Capitol had a window opened to cast away the issue on drugs. Had it exercised diligence in coming out with investigations, or appeased the Boholanos with the heads of workers who tested positive in the drug tests, it could have side-stepped away from controversy.
Unfortunately however, after two months, that window has closed.