Former Police Colonel Royina Garma and current Commissioner of the National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) Edilberto Leonardo are being pointed to as the masterminds of the extrajudicial killings (EJKs) which happened during the time of former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte (PRRD).
Garma and Leonardo are also under investigation for the killing of three Chinese drug lords in the Davao Penal Colony way back in 2016.
Garma was the former station police head in Sta. Ana, Davao City, where she presumably started her close relationship with Duterte. She became the chief of police of Cebu City as well as the Central Visayas regional command head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).
Leonardo on the other hand, served as the Davao City regional director of CIDG. This is where Garma and Leonardo started to operate together as they rose in the police ranks and conducted operations together.
It was during their time when the killing of the three Chinese drug lords in the Davao Penal Colony happend.
Leonardo and Garma were able to quickly rise during the time of PRRD. After serving as Davao City regional director, Leonardo was appointed by Duterte as the Commissioner of the NAPOLCOM.
For Garma, she was appointed as general manager of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) by Duterte. Garma retired early from police service even with ten years left.
When she was appointed as chief of police in Cebu City, the EJKs in the city rose to 198 individuals killed. Now, she is also being implicated as the mastermind of the killing of former PCSO Corporate Secretary Wesley Barayuga.
Barayuga was killed when he was close to exposing the corruptions within PCSO, which includes siphoning money from PCSO to fund the drug war.
To avoid a scandal, Barayuga got killed. Even after his death, Barayuga was included in the narcolist of Duterte containing a list of names of people involved in drugs.
In truth, Barayuga was a good, simple and humble man. He was never involved in drugs and Barayuga lived a simple life. Even as a high-ranking official in PCSO, he only commuted to work.
