MANILA – Vice President Leni Robredo stood by her pronouncements that the Duterte administration’s anti-illegal drug war is a failure, saying her data would only be wrong if government officials would admit that they gave her the wrong figures.
“Kapag sinabi nilang mali iyong data ko, galing iyon sa kanila. Ano ‘yung effect sa supply ng paghuli ng high-value targets? Kung walang epekto sa supply, wala rin. Kung 4,000 kilograms o 5,000 kilogram of shabu ang nasamsam, of what iyon? Iyong computation nga natin less than one percent, paano natin masasabing we are accomplishing something?” Robredo said during a news forum on Wednesday.
“Kung maraming drug operations, kung hindi nabawasan ang supply, sayang ang resources,” Robredo added.
Robredo said instead of crying foul over her report that cited government figures, administration officials should reconcile their drug war numbers – something she said they have failed to do in the last three years.
In giving the drug war a one percent mark, Robredo cited the Philippine National Police’s estimates of 3,000 kilograms of shabu per week (156,000 kilograms a year) and compared it with Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency seizures which did not even reach one percent of the 156,000 kilograms per year in the last three years. (GMA News/PN)
