IT’S NOT VERY often that we get see a Philippine President entrusting two of the most powerful government offices to siblings.
When Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assumed the country’s highest elective post, nobody expected that he’d pick Boying Remulla to take the helm of the Department of Justice, considering his allegiance to former President Rodrigo Duterte.
During the previous administration, Boying is considered as Duterte’s go-to-guy at the House of Representatives. He was a congressman representing a district in Cavite.
During that time, he never criticized the massive corruption in the government. He kept mum on the bloody war against drugs. Boying’s silence indicates conformity to whatever Duterte says or does.
His brother Jonvic is a turncoat. As early as 2015, he was rooting for former Vice President Jojo Binay who considered him a trusted lieutenant.
But as the 2016 presidential election drew closer, he abandoned Binay to join Duterte who was already leading surveys.
Moving forward, Marcos became the President. Boying was handsomely rewarded.
The President appointed him as Secretary of the Department of Justice on the request of Marcos’ runningmate, Vice President Sara Duterte.
When Marcos’ relationship with Sara turned sour, Boying took the lead in purging the very person who backed him up.
Halfway Marcos’ term, then Cavite Gov. Jonvic Remulla was appointed as Secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government on a marching order to sweep the Duterte remnants, to include high-profile fugitives like former BuCor Director General Gerald Bantag, former Palace spokesperson Harry Roque, former Ako Bicol partylist Rep. Zaldy Co and gaming tycoon Atong Ang.
To date, all four high-profile fugitives have not been arrested.
As for Boying, his luck pushed farther as he managed to become the Ombudsman with marching order to run after crooks in the government.
Sadly though, Boying has yet to prosecute the brains behind the biggest fund scandal in the Philippine history. All he’s got are minions.
In short, they both failed to deliver. But if there’s something they’re good at, that would be presiding over press conferences.