VERY EMBARRASSING

Re your news item on the sacking of the Pasig police chief for the
"shabu bazaar." I believe that the Pasig police, primarily the chief,
should accept responsibility for the flourishing of the drug market
under their very nose.

This is not only a gross negligence of duty. It is flaunting a menace
to the youth by allowing it to operate with seeming impunity.

Responsibility for this depravity should extend to the leaders of the
barangay where the "shabu bazaar" was operating. The mayor, no less,
cannot escape accountability for it.

What the open marketing of shabu in Pasig projects is the laxity and
permissiveness of the local authorities on drug trafficking which
destroys the minds and morals of the youth. For three years, according
to reports, the shabu business has flourished. Without the knowledge
of the barangay captain and his men?

Administrative sanctions are in order against those accountable for
this embarrassing incident.

Emilio Nicolas, North Olympus, Quezon City