PDEA chemists (on white) ready the unlawful medicine to be destroyed inside a thermal facility (Pictures by Leah Agonoy/INQUIRER)
PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Company Regional Workplace-9 led the destruction of some P1.5-M value of unlawful medicine on the Libertad Energy and Power Company (LPEC) in Aurora city, Zamboanga del Sur on Thursday afternoon.
PDEA-9 regional director Maharani Gadaoni-Tosoc stated the destroyed medicine amounted to some 222.4526 grams of meth shabu which had been disposed of by burning, in compliancr with the process set by Harmful Medication Board Regulation No. 1 collection of 2002.
PDEA chemists (on white) ready the unlawful medicine to be destroyed inside a thermal facility (Pictures by Leah Agonoy/INQUIRER)
PDEA partnered with LPEC since they had been geared up with a facility for “thermal destruction” of the unlawful medicine by heating these as much as 800 levels Celsius, she defined.
Regional Trial Court docket Department 30 Presiding Decide Analyn Ramas-Costanilla stated all of the destroyed harmful medicine had been submitted to her court docket from 2010 to 2024 as proof in 260 circumstances, of which solely three remained lively.
LPEC workers assisted in pouring the harmful medicine contained in the thermal facility (Pictures by Leah Agonoy/INQUIRER)
“This shall be an instance for them (different courts in Zamboanga del Sur) that it’s about time to destroy these medicine evidences that had been submitted to the court docket,” Costanilla stated.
READ: Supply of leaked PDEA papers a liar, says ex-boss
That is additionally for the neighborhood to know that the harmful medicine submitted to court docket had been finally destroyed and weren’t peddled again to the streets, she identified.
PDEA-9 had been conducting the destruction of confiscated unlawful medicine since 2014, the final one on March 8, 2022 destroying P34.4-M value of unlawful medicine in Zamboanga Metropolis, Tosoc recalled.
Your subscription couldn’t be saved. Please attempt once more.
Your subscription has been profitable.
