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Sen. Panfilo Lacson is ready to support President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, going so far as to donate his unspent campaign funds toward the bounty law enforcers would be paid when they capture or kill drug suspects.
Sen. Vicente Sotto likewise voiced his support for Duterte’s war on illegal drugs.
“Whatever it takes to take down the scourge of illegal drugs,” Sotto said in text message.
Duterte spelled out on Tuesday night his strategy for curbing the drug menace in the country in six months.
He said he would put up the remainder of his campaign funds as a bounty for police and military officials who neutralize drug suspects “dead or alive.”
He offered up the following rates: P3 million for a drug lord; P2 million for a distributor; P1 million for a “second echelon” syndicate member, and P50,000 for an “ordinary” pusher.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson is ready to support President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, going so far as to donate his unspent campaign funds toward the bounty law enforcers would be paid when they capture or kill drug suspects.
He said there was enough left over from his campaign funds “for 100 persons dead.”
Suspects who put up resistance during their arrest would be killed, while those who raise their hands in surrender would be spared, he added.
Lacson, said Duterte’s strategy was a “clear demonstration of his determination to end a scourge that has grown to alarming proportions in recent years.”
“Provided the law enforcement authorities do not go beyond the rule of law in carrying out his marching orders… I am in full support of his approach to accomplish what he promised before he was elected and now that he is waiting to be sworn into office,” said Lacson,
But he stressed that the police should not be motivated by the reward to do their job, “but solely by an unequivocal compliance with the President’s directive, not to mention their mandate to perform their sworn duty to protect the people and maintain a peaceful and orderly society.”
“I myself am willing to contribute from whatever unspent campaign contributions I still have to his pool of funds if only to underscore the importance of a concerted all-out war against drugs,” Lacson said, adding that he would check how much money he still had with his campaign finance officer.
SOURCE: Inquirer / Globalnews
