In a private meeting yesterday evening, the President personally told PDEA Chief Villanueva and PNP Chief Sinas to discontinue their joint investigation of the shootout incident. He reiterated his order to the NBI to assume the sole responsibility of conducting an independent and impartial probe. “I requested that both the PDEA and the PNP be directed to extend their full cooperation to the NBI. the NBI has formed a composite team led by Deputy Director Antonio Pagatpat, assisted by agents from the investigation, intelligence, and forensic divisions of the NBI.”