PDEA welcomes DILG move vs ‘narco-politicians’

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) welcomed on Friday the move of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to strip 24 local government officials of their powers over the police.

PDEA chief Aaron Aquino, however, clarified that the list of narcopoliticians—the basis of the DILG’s recent withdrawal of deputation order—did not come from the anti-illegal drug agency alone but a product of an interagency intelligence task force.