A lawmaker urged President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday to form an independent fact-finding commission to “thoroughly and impartially” look into the cases of summary killings and other drug deaths in the country. “I again urge President Rodrigo Duterte to create immediately an independent fact-finding commission to thoroughly and impartially investigate the escalating summary killings related to the administration’s campaign against the drug menace,” Albay 1st District Rep. Edcel Lagman said. In his statement issued on Saturday, Lagman said the proposed fact-finding commission should be composed of retired justices of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. “Moreover, the inquiry must not be left to politicians whose motives could be suspect despite their avowal of impartiality,” he added. “There are a number of precedents where fact-finding commissions were created to investigate events of transcendental importance like the Agrava Commission, Feliciano Commission and Melo Commission,” Lagman said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 19, 2017 03:45 UTC