Robert Ace Barbers, chairman of the House Committee on Dangerous Drugs and representative for Surigao del Norte, does not believe Senator Ronald Dela Rosa's claim that a police general was pressured to testify against him and former President Rodrigo Duterte regarding extrajudicial killings during the war on drugs campaign.
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“Mukhang marites lang yun,” Barbers said in an interview Friday.
Dela Rosa said Police General Romero Caramat was asked to implicate him and Duterte in the killing of thousands of drug suspects during the previous administration's war on drugs.
The senator was head of the Philippine National Police when the war on drugs began.
