Meanwhile, the Duterte administration pressed its offensive against politicians who are allegedly protecting drug lords or are drug traffickers themselves, including a Leyte town mayor who recently surrendered to the police. Meanwhile, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said he could no longer stomach the killings of suspected drug users and peddlers. A Korean woman who was supposed to leave for Busan was arrested after she was caught carrying 117 grams of hashish. That mayor should be the culprit,” Duterte said of Espinosa, who authorities suspect of being the biggest drug dealer in the Eastern Visayas region. The Catholic prelate said he fears that the country would turn into a “killing fields” nation in its dream to wipe out drug addiction.

Source: The Standard August 06, 2016 15:56 UTC