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(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo said she would release whatever she had found out in the three weeks that she had been the country’s anti-illegal drug czar as she vowed to fight the drug war in her own way, questioning even President Rodrigo Duterte’s sincerity in fighting illegal drugs. “Sa mga susunod na araw, magbibigay ako ng ulat sa bayan. Sasabihin ko ang aking natuklasan at aking mga rekomendasyon,” Robredo said after […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has fired Vice President Leni Robredo as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Illegal Drugs. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Robredo’s firing was “in response to the suggestion of Liberal Party President, Senator Francis Pangilinan, to just fire the Vice President from her post.” “This is also in response to the taunt and dare of VP Robredo for the President to just tell her that he wants her […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte explained that he decided not to appoint Vice-President Leni Robredo as a cabinet member because he believed doing so would “jeopardize” the country’s state secrets. Speaking late Tuesday night, Nov. 19, Duterte said that he is not allowing state secrets to be known by Robredo, and that she could have access only on a “need to know basis” to certain confidential information on the anti-illegal drug war. The President […]
https://youtu.be/gtHd8siAZnE (Eagle News) – A repackaging or “retooling” of the Philippine government’s current anti-illegal drugs campaign is now in the works after the meeting of Vice-President Leni Robredo with the Philippine National Police (PNP) The “tokhang” operations which had been linked negatively to drug killings will just be “retooled”, but the government’s drug war would not be stopped or removed, officials said. “Ang isa sa kanyang suggestion din is retooling on how we are going […]
(Eagle News) – Vice-President Leni Robredo said that officials of the United States are fully supportive of the Philippine government’s war against drugs and would be willing to give any help if needed for the campaign’s success. In her statement given after meeting with the US officials on Wednesday, Nov. 13, Robredo, the recently designated anti-illegal drugs czar by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, said that the various representatives of the US agencies she had […]
(Eagle News) – After accepting the post as the country’s new anti-illegal drug czar, Vice President Leni Robredo has changed her tune and now wants the United Nations not to interfere yet in the Philippine government’s drug war. After convening her first meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), Robredo said that the Philippines should be given the opportunity to fight and solve its illegal drug problem. “I have said […]
(Eagle News) – Vice- President Leni Robredo conducted her first meeting with the different members of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) on Friday, Nov. 8, and said that it had been “really a listening exercise” for her. “Kasi before today, I did not have access to the data that I had today,” she said. Robredo thanked all the efforts of the agencies under ICAD for their efforts to wage the war against drugs. […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte welcomed Vice President Leni Robredo’s acceptance of the co-chairmanship of the Inter-Agency Committee Against Illegal Drugs. In a statement on Thursday, Nov. 7, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the President expects Robredo would see the “realities on the ground, particularly with respect to the government’s position against extrajudicial or state-sponsored killings, and understand that deaths occur due to the violent reactions on the part of agents of the illegal drug trade […]
(Eagle News)–New administrative charges have been filed against the 13 policemen behind the irregular drug raid in Pampanga in 2013. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said the charges for serious irregularity in the performance of duty for mishandling of confiscated drugs and instruments; dishonesty for making untruthful statements in their affidavits of direct participation; grave misconduct for giving false testimony against the accused and making untruthful statements when they testified under oath during the Senate Blue […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, Nov. 6, welcomed Vice President Leni Robredo’s acceptance of President Rodrigo Duterte’s designation of her as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the next step was for Robredo to see Duterte so she would know what the job specifically entails. Panelo said in a television interview that she was also welcome to join the Cabinet meeting today. Earlier, Senator Francis Pangilinan, Cong. Edcel […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino on Tuesday, Nov. 5, welcomed the designation of Vice President Leni Robredo as co-chair of the inter-agency committee against illegal drugs. In a statement, Aquino said Robredo “can well contribute (to) the advocacy and rehabilitation/reintegration clusters ..” Aquino earlier said Robredo would fail as anti-drug czar as she was “not abreast with the supply reduction efforts and lacks experience in dealing and working with law enforcers.” President Rodrigo […]
