(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo is “being set up to fail” with her designation as co-chair of the Inter-agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman said on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
In a statement, Lagman, a partymate of Robredo, said the post was, after all, “vastly different” from the post of drug czar President Rodrigo Duterte previously offered.
He said the vice president “is being thrown into a composite of an inter-agency committee with no less than 20 agencies as members.”
As such, he said “as co-chair of ICAD, the Vice President, before she could act, will have to contend with the Chair and the multiple membership of ICAD.”
“The diluted position validates the fear that the Vice President is being set up to fail,” he said.
In an Oct. 30 memorandum, Duterte appointed Robredo to the post, which she will hold, should she accept, until June 30, 2022 “unless sooner revoked.”
Duterte made the appointment after Robredo said the drug war had failed since it had failed to curb the number of drug users in the country.
