“If command responsibility will be the basis, the first person who should be suspended is Senator Alan Peter Cayetano.”
This was how National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag on Tuesday responded to Senate President Cayetano’s recent call for the Office of the Ombudsman to suspend Matibag.
The Ombudsman on Monday issued a six-month preventive suspension order to Aplasca after he admitted firing the first warning shot that led to more gunfires in the Senate last week.
In Tuesday’s Machra’s Balitaan news forum, Matibag mentioned that Cayetano’s call for him to be suspended is due to his leadership at the NBI and his command responsibility for the agents involved in the shooting.
He then pointed out that if the basis for his suspension is “command responsibility,” Cayetano should be the first to be suspended since he is responsible for Aplasca, who he noted initiated the gunshots.
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