President Rodrigo Duterte fired the chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board for allegedly using contradicting statistics. You know five years ago, Santiago who was the PDEA chief gave us a figure of three million,” Duterte said after arriving in Manila from Moscow. “Ang binigay ni Reyes sa chairman sa Dangerous Board, ‘yung accomplishment ni Bato ng PNP. When I have been telling everybody, everything that there’s about four million drug addict(s),” the President said. ADVERTISEMENTThe Dangerous Drugs Board has been using a 2015 survey that says there were 1.8 million drug users in the country.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 24, 2017 12:57 UTC