Kamag-anak ko yan! President Duterte calls Carl Arnaiz his ‘relative’
President Rodrigo Duterte said during the 17th founding anniversary of Digos City that he and 19-year-old Carl Arnaiz, is his relative.
According to President Duterte, the killings of teenagers in the country meant to sabotage his war on drugs.
“Silipin mong (PNP Chief Ronald dela Rosa) mabuti kasi sinasabotahe kayo. Alam mo magbaril iyan, if at all. Pero hindi yung nakabalot. It’s not a job of the police. Sinasadya talaga ‘yan,” Duterte said.
“Mag-salvage ng tao (summary execution), we do not do that… Kalokohan iyan (That’s foolish)… Just follow the law. Only when your life is in danger, lumaban (fight) and because you have to place him under the custody, you have to overcome the resistance,” he said.
“May nagluluto diyan to discredit us (There’s a plot to discredit us),” he said.
Carl Arnaiz went missing for 10 days and found his body at a morgue in Caloocan City.
According to the investigation reports, five bullets peirced through the body of Arnaiz.
President Duterte said he vowed to bring to jail the policemen involved in the killing of Arnaiz if law enforcers have criminal liability.
President Duterte stressed that he would never allow his troops to kill defenseless persons.
“Ang sinabi ko naman talaga (What I said), we will protect the soldiers and policemen, no doubt but always there has to be the element of the performance of duty and you do not kill defenseless persons,” he said.
“I’m sorry but I will pursue the cases against the police and if need be, they will go to jail. Wala ako inutos na patayin mo ‘yung bata or matanda (I have never ordered the killing of children) and even the enemy on bended knees. That’s not the norm or the rule of democracy… I would never, never condone or allow it,” the President said.
Meanwhile, 14-year-old Reynaldo de Guzman, Arnaiz’s companion on the night he disappeared was found dead with at least 30 stab wounds in Gapan, Nueva Ecija.
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