New ICAD co-chair refutes Robredo: Drug war not a failure
PACC chair and ICAD co-chair Dante Jimenez. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — The newly-designated co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-illegal Drugs (ICAD) Dante Jimenez refuted Vice President Leni Robredo’s claim that the government’s war against illegal drugs is a failure.
“Let us disprove the peddled, yet unfounded claim that the government’s war on illegal drugs is a ‘massive failure,’” said Jimenez, who is also the chairman of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC), in a press briefing in Malacañang.
“I don’t know her basis, but what is important here is that under the administration of the President, his administration was able to destroy a lot and neutralize all drug laboratories in the country,” Jimenez said.
Robredo earlier hoped the ICAD would correct its past mistakes with the appointment of Jimenez as a new co-chair.
The Vice President also said she wishes there would be an admission on the drug war’s shortcomings, and that it would be “data-driven” and “evidence-based.”
Article continues after this advertisementJimenez also renewed his call to President Rodrigo Duterte to reimpose the death penalty to scare drug lords.
Article continues after this advertisement“I would like to request the President to make as a priority a bill reimposing the death penalty. This is one penalty that would be able to institute fear among the illegal drug lords,” Jimenez said.
Jimenez was appointed as ICAD co-chair after the President sacked Robredo from the said post.
After her short stint as co-chair, Robredo released a summary of findings that regarded the drug war as a “massive failure” after it was found that authorities were only able to constrict only one percent of shabu and drug money entering the country.
