DAVAO CITY – In a soliloquy reminiscent of deposed President Joseph Estrada’s inaugural promise “walang kaibigan, walang kumpare,” President Duterte said he won’t allow his friendships get in the way of his fight against corruption and campaign to uplift the lives of Filipinos. “Let us be very clear on this,” said Mr. Duterte at the BFAR ship commissioning ceremony. ADVERTISEMENTErap’s wordsIt was a statement that echoed Estrada’s “walang kumpare, walang kaibigan” diatribe against corruption at his inauguration as president at the Luneta Grandstand in 1998. Some of these people, he said, were the ones who tried to persuade him to run in order to end corruption. He said if corruption remains unchecked, “the danger there is it would make things worse for us.”“In my time, I would never allow it,” Mr. Duterte said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 22, 2017 12:33 UTC