This will leave you wondering about how much money is involved in the illegal trade of drugs. Who has that much to spare?!
Some 20 drug and crime lords, mostly serving time at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), are allegedly pooling together money for a PHP1-billion bounty for the heads of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, incoming Philippine National Police chief Ronald de la Rosa, a new senator and a prisons official.
“Not only one person will pay, but people from different organizations,” said the source in a report by Inquirer.
De la Rosa earlier said that drug lords in the NBP had offered PHP10 million each for his and Duterte’s heads. The bounty was then raised to PHP50 million.
Now, with a contribution of PHP50 million each from the big players in the crime and drug industry, the kill-Duterte fund has now reached PHP50 billion.
The bounty offers come after Duterte has shown how serious he is about fighting drugs.
The incoming president offered PHP5 million for every dead drug lord, PHP3 million for a syndicate member and PHP50,000 for a small-time pusher.
So, who else do drug and crime lords want dead? Senator-elect Leila de Lima and Bureau of Corrections chief Ricardo Rainier Cruz III.
De Lima led the first in a series of raids at the NBP that resulted in the discovery of moneyed inmates living like kings, complete with hot-tubs, appliances and gadgets.
Cruz, on the other hand, initiated “Oplan Galugad,” regular raids conducted at the NBP to seize contraband and other prohibited items from the inmates.
“Nasisiraan na yung mga tao sa loob. Hindi kasi nila alam kung seseryosohin ni Digong yung sinabi niyang papatayin lahat ng drug lords doon,” said Inquirer’s source.
(“The convicts are going crazy. They don’t know if Digong will really carry out his threat to kill the drug lords in prison.”)
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