Palace welcomes proposed probe into gains, shortcomings of gov’t drug war

By Prince Golez

Malacañang welcomed Senator Leila de Lima’s call for an investigation into the “gains, achievements, shortcomings, and accountabilities” of the government’s campaign against illegal drugs.

“Okay lang po ‘yan nang hindi nasasayang ang suweldo niya. Sana maka-attend siya pero hindi naman siya makaka-attend,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a virtual presser Wednesday.

De Lima earlier filed Senate Resolution No. 770, urging Congress to look into the shortcomings and accountabilities of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.

Despite billions of pesos in intelligence fund, she claimed that “there has been no notable achievements in terms of effectively neutralizing any drug syndicate other than kill suspected low-level drug peddlers.”

Since 2017, the senator has been detained at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center at Camp Crame in Quezon City on drug charges.

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