President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in his impromptu speech
Tuesday in the Anti-Corruption Summit 2017 cannot make himself more clearer in
his campaign against illegal drugs.
War on drugs, was one of his campaign promises when he ran
for the seat in Malacanang last year- a
brutal war against illegal drugs, which caused an international alarm with
those so called human rights groups.
In his speech he threw a question to the audience : “Why
should I be kind to criminals?”
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| Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte (photo credit to owner) |
The President said that he’d rather use the funds for the
rehabilitation of drug dependents should just be channeled to projects that aim
to generate more jobs.
“Bakit ako mag-rehabilitate ng criminals? Eh kasalanan mo. T****na wag
mo ko b***s**t dyan,” Duterte said in an impromptu speech during the
Anti-Corruption Summit 2017.
(Why should I rehabilitate criminals? It’s their fault why they’re like
that. Son of a b***h. Don’t give me that b***s**t.)
“Ako, kapag criminal ka, criminal ka talaga (For me, if you are a
criminal, you are really a criminal) ... why should I be kind to criminals?” he
added.
The President in his previous speaking engagements has turned down the
idea in reforming criminals, branding them as “monsters” who have “lost the
essence or existence of a productive person.”
Duterte had repeatedly berated the European Union for supposedly
proposing a "health-based solution" to the drug problem that involved
dispensing methampetamine, locally known as shabu.
The maverick leader had branded the supposed EU recommendation a
"government-sponsored idiotic exercise."
"The sons of bitches, they want us to build clinics, then we
should, instead of arresting or putting them in prison like in other countries,
you go there and if you want shabu they will inject you or give you
shabu," he said in a previous speech before Filipino-Chinese businessmen.
According to the EU, it was working with the Department of Health and
World Health Organization in implementing a program that "aims to support
recovery from addiction, while keeping families together and facilitating
development of social and job skills."
Report from Philstar
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