ILOILO Governor Niel Tupas says the Iloilo Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has crooks in barong and americana in the pockets of drug lords. That is the disease – corruption.

Cut off then the provincial government’s P1.7-million annual financial assistance to the prosecutor’s office. His recommended cure.

Chief provincial prosecutor Bernabe Dusaban fears Tupas’s move will hamper his office’s operations. But, of course, government runs on money. Without money government offices will grind to a halt.

Tupas justifies he cannot support an office which sells its soul to drug pushers. Tupas chastising corruption? Whew!!!

The Duchess trailer Tupas says he has evidence to prove his claim and he prefers to present in his own sweet time.

But former Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Iloilo president Hans Sayno would rather dare Tupas to sue any member of the prosecution service if indeed he has any evidence against anyone at the prosecutor’s office. Guv, you cannot just parade your charade on sticky saliva. Have evidence must sue.

Tupas uses the media to disparage or “undermine public trust” on the prosecutor’s office and that does not sit well with lawyers like Sayno who thinks Tupas is wittingly or unwittingly sabotaging the justice system in this part of the country. Why discredit an office vital in the administration of justice? Nice trial by publicity, huh!

Tupas does not deserve his assumed role as spokesman against corruption in the prosecution service. Perhaps, he needs to be reminded that his provincial administration is not so provincial when one talks of graft and corruption as stories about anomalies stream out of its nostrils on a regular basis even surpassing the corruption issues generated by the unlamented Griño administration. The pot calling the kettle black? Yeah, nothing could be more appropriate.

Tupas’s prescribed drug is worse than the disease he wishes to cure. Worst if the one prescribing the cure is himself immune or resistant to the cure.

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