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WASTE NOT THE MOMENT ON POLITICAL VENDETTA, SERVE THE PEOPLE INSTEAD
By Rep. Chester Lobramonte
 
As a Member of the House Committee on Justice, I assert that the time, efforts, and resources of the Committee would be better spent on the many bills pending before it instead of tackling the impeachment complaints recently filed.
 
One good thing these impeachment complaints could lead to though is the one-year vaccination against the initiation of other impeachment complaints provided in Article XI, Section 3 (5).
 
That inoculation could spare us the nonsense of wasting time on the abuse of the impeachment process for political vendetta and subverting the will of the people expressed in the May 2016 national elections. (Read: https://goo.gl/qoLlE5 )
 
The bills on juvenile justice, death penalty, protection of witnesses and whistleblowers, and measures to create the Dangerous Drugs Court, and the Commission on Immigration, are of critical importance to the proper and swift administration of justice in our country.
 
There are fifteen items on the legislative agenda on justice in the Philippine Development Plan 2017 to 2022. The sooner those bills are passed, the better off Filipinos will be. (Read: https://goo.gl/9Glm28 )
 
On current efforts of the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice, those designed to enhance and expand night courts, family courts, the eSubpoena and eWarrant systems, automation of the courts, and continuous trial deserved support from all sides. For the 2018 national budget cycle, these priorities deserving more funding.
 
Our friends in the news media, social media, and entertainment media would do our fellow citizens a great service by making more Filipinos, especially the poor and marginalized, aware of the details of these ongoing measures, particularly the night courts and the technological thrusts.

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