No misstep in anti-drug ops by Robredo during ICAD stint —PNP

Vice President Leni Robredo committed no mistake on anti-drug operations her 19-day stint as co-chairperson of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), the spokesperson of the Philippine National Police has said.

“On anti-drug operations, no misstep on her part,” Police Brigadier General Bernard Banac told GMA News Online on Tuesday.

Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo claimed that Robredo had supposedly committed some missteps which prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to fire her as co-chairperson of the said committee on illegal drugs.

Panelo said the missteps include Robredo’s meeting with officials from the United States and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to discuss the Philippines’ drug war.

According to Banac, the PNP respects the move of the Vice President to meet with foreign officials and discuss with them the country’s drug menace.

Banac also mentioned that it was right for Robredo not to join the anti-illegal drugs operations of law enforcers.

“She allowed launching of anti-drug operations without her presence. We actually discouraged her from joining it so as not to compromise her own safety and security and the success of the operations,” Banac said.

Prior to his decision, the Chief Executive already bared that he does not trust Robredo as he believed that the latter may disclose confidential information that may pose risk to national security.

In response, Robredo said she would not walk away from the government’s anti-illegal drugs campaign.

Robredo even said she would make revelations as to what she had discovered about the drug war.

Banac said the police would remain open to Robredo’s ideas which may help in improving the government’s campaign against illegal drugs. —NB, GMA News