OPINION: TULFOS ARE TABOOS

Tulfo brothers lose PNP, Marine security details
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I take responsibility for Erwin’s outburst

I TAKE responsibility for the action of my brother, Erwin, in berating Social Welfare Secretary Rolando Bautista on national TV after the latter turned down an invitation to be interviewed on air.

I said so on CNN and I’m reiterating my apology to Bautista and the others who may have been hurt by Erwin’s going out of bounds.The responsibility is mine as a patriarch who has taken over my father, the late Constabulary Col. Ramon S. Tulfo, who taught us to respect authority, as well as humility.

Perhaps I have been remiss in my duty of reminding them of our old man’s teachings.

I had asked Erwin Sunday night to make an unequivocal public apology to which he willingly agreed.

This episode has taught my brothers and I a lesson in humility and how to handle success.

As the Good Book says, “He who exalts himself shall be humbled.”

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I sincerely thank the Philippine Marine Corps for providing me with a security detail and have no hard feelings about my Marine bodyguards being withdrawn.

My Marine security detail and I have learned lessons from each other; they have taught me the value of discipline and camaraderie in a group while I have taught them compassion and care for the poor and the oppressed.

I will sorely miss them, but they are free to come back when they retire from the service.

Several Marines who were assigned to me in years past have come back after they retired from the service and are still with me.

Loyalty begets loyalty.

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When President Digong promised investors and donors in Japan that their money was going to be safe in the Philippines, he was very serious.

He made that promise at the 25th Nikkei Future of Asia Conference held last Friday, May 31, in Tokyo.

Two days earlier, during a talk after a private dinner he hosted for close friends, associates and military and police generals, he said he would set up an office within the Office of the President to hear concerns or complaints from foreign investors.

That office would also become a one-stop shop based in Malacañang.

The President reiterated that announcement when he and I had a private conversation that lasted till the wee hours of the morning of Friday.

I told him some government offices —save for those at the Department of Trade and Industry — were giving potential foreign investors, especially those from Mainland China, a hard time.

“If you report those officials to me, I will slap them in front of you and the [potential] foreign investors,” he told me.

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Sen. Ping Lacson is on the right track in summoning officials of the Bureau of Customs and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) before the Senate’s public order committee over a P1-billion shipment of shabu (crystal meth) that came out of the customs zone.

The illegal drugs were found hidden inside aluminum pallets by a winning bidder who bought the shipment from the customs bureau.

Customs and PDEA agents explained that the shipment had been released to draw out the owners of the illegal drugs.

But Lacson, a veteran intelligence operative when he was with the defunct Philippine Constabulary (PC), found the explanation incredulous.

“You don’t have to think to see the holes in the stories fabricated by the officials of these agencies,” Lacson said.

Attaboy, Ping! Give them hell during the Senate hearing.

What Lacson is implying is that some PDEA and customs officials knew that the shipment had contraband in it.

Republic Act 10863, or the “Customs Modernization Tariff Law,” calls for the destruction of seized contraband.

The customs bureau has X-ray machines while PDEA has sniff dogs that could have discovered the crystal meth hidden inside the pallets.

My little birdies at the customs bureau say that the contraband was accidentally discovered when one of the pallets broke after being dropped from a lifter.

The winning bidder immediately informed the customs bureau and PDEA of the find.

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