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| Vice President Leni Robredo and former Sen. Antonio Trillanes / file photo via ABS CBN |
Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV can’t help but comment about the recent move of President Rodrigo Duterte to assign Vice President Leni Robredo as the co-chairperson of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), saying it was meant to create distraction from the government’s failures.
“I see it as a political
distraction. It has no value,” Trillanes said addressing the reporters,
according to Inquirer’s article.
“As I said, this offer
should give full authority [to Robredo]. It seems that this being pushed as an
issue so it would be discussed instead of his [the President’s] failure.” He
said
“This started with the
assessment of Vice President Leni that the number of drug users had been
increasing, according to Duterte himself. This means that the program was failing,”
Trillanes added.
Trillanes,
the always critic of Duterte, discourages Robredo from accepting the offered position.
He
said, the Vice President should not settle for less than absolute
authority to address the illegal drug problem.
“This is just for distraction. They will play with her. But
she is not the issue here. The issue is Duterte’s approach [to the problem] for
the past three years,” Trillanes said
The former senator, on the other hand, expressed confidence
that Robredo would succeed if given an absolute power to lead the war against illegal
drugs.
“For me, on the
assumption that Duterte would give full authority to VP Leni, she should go
after the drug lords that remained untouched under the Duterte administration
for the past three years,” he added.
“The past three years,
Duterte focused on suspected users. But the drug lords who should have been the
focus were neglected,” the former senator went on.
Source: Inquirer
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