Payback time

FOR too long, a number of mayors and barangay kapitans in Pangasinan have lorded it over their communities, poisoning them with impunity. For too long, they fed their constituents with illegal drugs, confident that they will never be made to account for their evil deeds.

Well, the time has come for payback. Today they are being told to surrender or be shot dead. They are likely flabbergasted and shaking in their shoes because their nemesis is another mayor who hates drugs, a mayor who knows and understands fully how and why they protected and peddled illegal drugs. It is to their misfortune that the mayor who knew too much about them became President.

The mayors and barangay kapitans will have no way out because many of their victims, the self-confessed users and pushers have already told on them. And it is perhaps this knowledge that has led to many extra-judicial killings and summary executions in conspiracy with their partners-in–crime, the corrupt police officers.

Thank God, we finally have a President who hates drugs and willing to stake his own integrity, his life and the Presidency in his proclaimed war on drugs.

Let’s pray that his unprecedented political leadership will inspire many local leaders to muster as much moral courage and political will to do what is right for their constituents.

Duterte undaunted

 WITH all these drug-related killings shockingly sweeping the land but generally welcomed nonetheless by an appreciative populace long suffering from government indifference, the obvious has been unmasked:  The past administration didn’t do its job insofar as containing, if not curtailing, the drug menace.

The number of drug users consistently giving themselves up for rehab is not only staggering but hair-raising as well.  Against this backdrop, grimly revealing is the lack, if not abject absence, of infrastructure to house thousands of drug dependents willing to be restored back to good standing in society.  But while the new dispensation is hell-bent on repairing our drug-damaged citizens via major surgery, there appears to be a band of saboteurs trying to derail President Duterte’s nation-building efforts.

We are just too glad to note, though, that Mr. Duterte is undaunted.  That speaks volumes on the brand of government the new leadership is projecting.  Profoundly positive.

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