A confessed assassin for the Davao Death Squad, he was the first to go public about the killings allegedly ordered by former President Rodrigo Duterte. Since 2014, when he was detained and brutally tortured by his former comrades, Matobato has been on the run.
They can start uncovering things with Paul Gutierrez’s sudden curiosity about Guban’s conditions. It can open a Pandora’s box.
Rodrigo Duterte’s six years in power were characterized by fear of a secret and parallel organization that emerged within the national police to carry out the genocidal war on drugs.
A congressional inquiry found that the drug war was not meant to eliminate the drug menace because illegal drug substances continued to flood the country. It was intended to eliminate a rival drug cartel.