CAMP OLIVAS”•A Chinese national was arrested while four other Chinese escaped on Friday after police raided one of the biggest shabu laboratories in the country in Laquios village in Arayat, Pampanga, an official said.
Chief Supt. Aaron Aquino said the suspect was now under custody while his four countrymen were being hunted down.
He made his statement even as Senator Panfilo Lacson said President Rodrigo Duterte should stop dreaming he could totally eliminate the drug problem, calling it “wishful thinking.”
Duterte had only recently asked for a six-month extension to his anti-drug campaign to eliminate all drug pushers. He said he had no idea that hundreds of thousands of people were in the business of making and selling illegal drugs.
“That [the problem of illegal drugs] cannot be eliminated,” said Lacson who was chief of police during the Estrada administration.
“As I said, there is no need to ask for an extension. Crime and corruption and drugs will outlive all of us,” he told dzMM radio.
Aquino said the shabu laboratory masquerading as a piggery was raided after a month-long surveillance.
He said the laboratory covered several hectares of land between the villages of San Juan Bano and Laquios in Arayat.
He said the lab was surrounded by a piggery and poultry farm with a capacity to produce large quantities of shabu as shown by the seven distilleries seized there.
But the lab was still to start operations because the shabu producers were still awaiting the arrival of raw materials and chemicals from abroad, Aquino said.