‘Narco-mayor’ vows to clear name, reveal mastermind of ‘shabu’ lab

By Erwin Beleo

NAGUILLAN, La Union — Mayor Reynaldo “Bobot” Flores of this town, who is one of the four alleged narco-politicians previously named by President Duterte in La Union, vowed during a rally last Monday to clear his name and reveal the real mastermind behind a “shabu” laboratory raided by authorities in this town in July, 2008.

Addressing the so-called unity rally of his supporters at the municipal plaza, here, Flores said: “We are the ones who busted that facility and we know the story behind it. But I am the one suffering now. They backfired at me because they lost billions of drug money.”

The mayor said he still thanks Duterte for naming him in the list of narco-politicians because it gives him the opportunity to tell everything he knows about that raided illegal drug facility in Barangay Bimmotobot back in 2008.

“Because of that shabu laboratory, my name was dragged in bad light. However, the President made me an instrument for the reopening of this case to find out the real mastermind on the shabu laboratory. I am very positive that the truth will come out. The investigation being done now against me after I was named in the President’s list already reopened the case,” he said.

Flores said he already given all the information he knew about the illegal facility which was contained in his affidavit he submitted to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Camp Crame last week.

Flores said that aside from former Police Supt. Dionicio Borromeo, the convicted lab protector, there are still bigger personalities behind the illegal activity.

“There is a bigger fish than Borromeo. He is our political enemy and he hates us so much because we withdrew our support to him,” Flores said.