An issue of national integrity

The Senate hearing on extrajudicial killings (EJK) has reached a point of no return. After Thursday’s gruesome details of a hitman’s testimony, the probe must go on to examine his credibility. After all, the man he describes as the central figure who gave the kill orders to the so-called Davao Death Squad happens to be the city’s mayor then and now the incumbent President of the Republic.

The testimony yesterday of the self-confessed member of the infamous Davao Death Squad (DDS), Edgar Matobato, who testified to having personally participated in the killings and mutilation of scores of murdered victims, left everyone who was witnessing the hearing at the Senate or watching it on TV gasping and horrified.