Duterte: Drug war in PH ‘failed’By The Manila TimesPRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that his administration’s drug war “failed” and was actually “worsening.”In a speech during the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayan campaign rally in Malabon City on Tuesday evening, Duterte, whose promise of eradicating illegal drugs in the country in three to six months virtually catapulted him to the presidency in 2016, said the illegal drug situation was “swallowing” the country. He also slammed the claim that police officers were being paid to kill drug suspects. In 2017, Amnesty International reported that policemen were offered up to P15,000 per drug kill, which Duterte denied. In late March, Duterte said that the drug situation in the country “worsened” and that law enforcers were close to giving up. In February, Duterte said that there would be a harsher drug war in the three remaining years of his term.

Source: Manila Times April 03, 2019 08:03 UTC