The syndicates are also believed to be behind the huge funding behind rights groups and political characters who have specifically targeted President Duterte in a campaign that included the filing of a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Her campaign funds should be looked into since foreign groups in the “Oust Duterte” movement are known to consort with narcos who were displaced after the unleashing of the unprecedented war on drugs. More than two weeks into her tenure, however, she failed to flesh out the alternative method. The first directive of the Vice President as head of the anti-drugs campaign was for enforcement agencies to produce the list of high-value drug lords, which surprised officials of the body, since only the President had access to the list of about 11,000 drug personalities.Īfter her appointment, Robredo met with officials of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the US Embassy to discuss the drug problem that she intended to tackle using a public health approach, which the President had indicated was not applicable to the country’s deep problem involving illegal substances. President Rodrigo Duterte, on his way to an Association of Southeast Asian Nations event in November 2019, booted Robredo as ICAD co-chair citing her incompetence and her penchant to grandstand. Robredo was terminated in 2019 as head of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) 18 days after her appointment to the post as she rushed to the United States and foreign rights groups in drafting her playbook on the anti-drugs strategy, instead of discussing it with the President. Questions about her competence or the lack of it will be foremost among voters, while the lingering doubts about her links with foreign groups, an alliance of convenience with radicals and even her suspected ties with the drugs underworld, will have to be given light.įilipinos have had enough of coddlers of narcos, the reason which sent Senator Leila de Lima, who was the Justice secretary when the National Bilibid Prison cartel had its golden years, into detention. Vice President Leni Robredo, who recently discarded yellow for pink in the pursuit of her undying ambition and to prolong the frustration of the hypocritic mob in retaking government power, has opened herself to public scrutiny over her performance during her lackluster term.
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