Congress chambers defer probes into PNP-PDEA shootout to give way to NBI
endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 27) — Both houses of Congress are suspending their scheduled legislative inquiries into the deadly shootout between police personnel and narcotics agents to allow the National Bureau of Investigation to take charge of the probe as requested by President Rodrigo Duterte. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque told CNN Philippines on Saturday that the President asked lawmakers to allow NBI's sole investigation into the exchange of fire between Quezon City police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives near the parking lot of a fast-f...