CIBAC Representative and House Deputy Speaker Bro. Eddie Villanueva condemned the recent shooting of a policeman of unarmed mother and son in Paniqui, Tarlac saying that the incident is a glaring picture of the state where the worsening culture of impunity and injustice in the country have already brought us.

“The brazen and senseless shooting of a mother and son by a policeman in Tarlac must be a sudden prick to our consciousness which might have become accustomed to incidences of killings in the country. It should be a stern warning that justice must be served for every fall of life – particularly if brutal cold-blooded killing. Or else, we make the culture of impunity larger each day that we let injustice get away. The Tarlac incident should be a foreshadowing of what is ahead of us if abuse of power and wanton disregard of the sanctity of life will not be stopped now,” says the CIBAC solon, who is the House Deputy Speaker for Good Governance and Moral Uprightness. The CIBAC solon says that in only barely a month, several brutal killings have already transpired considering the fact that the country is in the midst of a pandemic. The Laguna mayor slain inside the municipal hall, the Manila judge shot dead by a clerk inside a court’s chamber, the killing of a journalist by gunmen in motorcycle in Pangasinan, a lawyer shot dead in Cebu, the daily deaths made pursuit to the war against drugs – just to name a few – have all made it to the headlines indicating a dissipating regard for the value of human life. However, what makes the Tarlac incident more painful is that the perpetrator of the crime is a law enforcer who should be the most trusted person in protecting and  saving lives. “It is necessary that the government must make sure that justice is served in these senseless killings and put an end to the burgeoning state of impunity and injustice in the country. In the face of this erosion of morality if not sanity, mere rhetoric and less-than-what-is-needed actions are only a waste of effort and time. Worse, it only makes perpetrators of crimes more callous and undeterred. As long as there is no fear of God on the part of law enforcers, there can never be good governance for Fear of GOD is the beginning of Wisdom! (Proverbs 9:10),” ends Deputy Speaker Villanueva.