Law enforcement mess at NAIA
The police security personnel who fetched NBN-ZTE key witness Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada after his arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, after a week-long trip from Hong Kong, should have turned him over to the Senate arresting team instead of being whisked away without the knowledge of his family who was waiting at the arrival area of the NAIA. The mess turned out to be another insult to the Senate committees that issued the warrant of arrest for Mr. Lozada, after he failed to appear before a public hearing for him to shed more light on the anomalous ZTE transaction. This only goes to show that among the three branches of government, the executive branch is more powerful that the two--judiciary and the legislature--because it had succeeded in ordering the police to take control of the key witness. And it appears that the police are invoking miscommunication as the cause of it all. But some doubting-Thomases thought otherwise. They suspected that there was a premeditat...