Former Justice Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd and now 1-BAP party-list congressman has lambasted the National Bureau of Investigation for discriminately profiling a September 16 Zamboanga City bombing suspect as “Muslim type.”

“There is a need to curb the ‘enthusiasm’ of none other than our law enforcers in making hasty and dangerous descriptions of mere suspects which unwittingly denigrate a whole race of people,” Bello said in a statement.

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