News commentary by Raïssa Robles

Today, a senator’s spurned lover told the nation how he was ordered to pick up drug payoffs for the senator while she was then the country’s Secretary of Justice.

Yesterday, a police general wept as one of the most wanted men implicated a whole raft of senior police officers and the same senator in the hyper lucrative illegal drugs trade.

The back-to-back testimonies of self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa and Ronnie Dayan – the former driver-bodyguard-lover of Senator Leila de Lima – proved to be more riveting and sordid than prime time telenovelas.