President-elect Rodrigo Duterte claimed at 35 local execs are involved in the illegal drug trade during a recent meeting with Congressmen in Davao City.
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In an article published by PhilStar, Quezon Rep. Danilo Suarez revealed that Duterte talked about the “clear and present danger” of the country’s drug problem during a meeting with lawmakers Tuesday night at the Malacañang of the South in Barangay Panacan here.
(He said) top officials of the PNP (Philippine National Police), and 35 local executives (are involved in the illegal drug trade),” Suarez, one of the lawmakers who attended the meeting, said in an interview on Wednesday.
Rep. Suarez from the Quezon Province was quoted by PhilStar on the fate awaiting the local execs in complicity with the drug lords, “It’s like he is giving them leeway to confess. Perhaps they will get a lighter sentence if they confess but he is not saying clemency or pardon.”
Rep. Suarez divulged that the incoming President did not drop any names among the local execs but he mentioned one police general involved in the illegal drug trade. He refused to name the general in deference to the incoming President.
Suarez revealed that President-elect Duterte was visibly irked and frustrated with the local executives who are condoning the illegal drugs to proliferate under their noses instead of suppressing it.
“It’s a double whammy. You are not stopping, you are even protecting (the business of prohibited drugs),” President-elect Duterte was quoted by Rep. Suarez.
“It remains unclear what Duterte would do if the 35 local officials refuse to admit to their supposed wrongdoings. The tough-talking politician, however, has said that he would not hesitate to kill to protect the country from the drug menace,” said Rep. Suarez.
What are your thoughts on this?
SOURCE: PhilStar
The drug trade is definitely evil; the government needs to put up at each region a rehabilitation farm where young drug users may channel their energies to produce organic food and/or engage in other appropriate industry. Government has the money to do this. Sending the users to jail will not solve the problem. How to treat the drug lords and syndicates is another matter. President-elect Duterte knows what he is talking about and for once we have a leader who talks sense!
Duterte is very Right…How then the country will go forward if all these things are still exist?
That is true. Some provinces and cities in the Philippines are run by Narco-Politics. It’s like Cuba already. Kung sino pa mga Mayor ng lugar sila pa ang mga user, pusher at mga negosyante ng drugs. Kaya nga hindi nasusugpo ang drugs eh.