The war against illegal drugs is far from over... This is why the illegal drugs war will not be sidelined. Instead, it will be as relentless and chilling, if you will, as on the day it began."

Rating

Duterte rails against illegal drugs and how it destroys lives but does not cite specific numbers on how his administration's anti-drug war addressed this problem. He had promised to end this problem within 6 months. The President has resources in his hands as in 2017, intelligence and confidential funds under the OP alone were 5 times bigger than the combined funds the office received (a total of P500 million) in 2016, under the last budget enacted during the Aquino administration. And the justification cited for this huge jump in spending is the drug war.

Reviewed by Rappler ↗ · July 25, 2018