Failure to share intel led to smuggling of P6.8 billion ‘shabu,’ says House leader

FAILURE in the exchange of information among agencies concerned with the government’s anti-drug campaign led to the smuggling of P6.8 billion worth of “shabu” into the country, a lawmaker at the House of Representatives said on Thursday.

“There is definitely lack of sharing of intel among the concerned agencies. Before taking action, they should have conducted a case conference and coordinated their efforts in going after a big-time drug bust,” Rep. Robert Ace Barbers of Surigao del Norte, chairman of the House committee on dangerous drugs, said in a statement after his committee opened an investigation into the incident on Tuesday.