Duterte-Cayetano pledges zero-corruption
PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte took Pangasinan by a storm and pledged that a government under the Duterte-Cayetano administration will be corruption-free even as he reiterated his assurance that the country will be rid of drug lords.
“I guarantee you, it will be a clean government. There will be no corruption,” Mr. Duterte told a mammoth crowd that gathered at the Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) campus in Dagupan City to personally see and hear the mayor from Mindanao who captured the voters’ imagination, talk during a sortie here Wednesday afternoon.
The tough-talking mayor of Davao City, said corruption, illegal drugs and criminality are what ails the country today and vowed a dramatic change in the state of the country’s peace and order in the first three to six months of his term should he get elected.
At one point, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Laban ng Bayan (PDP Laban) standard bearer, who is running with Majority Floor Leader Sen. Alan Cayetano as his vice presidential candidate, did not mince words when he charged the administration’s standard bearer Mar Roxas for failing to account for the billions of pesos in foreign assistance that the country received in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda in 2013.
“Now, I will ask Roxas, where did the Yolanda funds go?” Duterte said, drawing wild applause from the crowd that filled the LNU gym to the rafters.
He said his rival from the administration party, Mar Roxas, as then DILG secretary, must explain to the people to where the funds went.
Mr. Duterte visited Pangasinan Wednesday where he held a public rally and led a caravan from Lingayen to Dagupan City after he paid a courtesy call on Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr.
Thousands lined up the streets to have a glimpse of the charismatic leader from the South. Students left their classrooms while workers came out to wave at Duterte as his vehicle passed by.
Senator Cayetano, who was feeling sick, asked to be excused from addressing the crowd owing to a sore throat that prevented him from speaking. (Leonardo Micua)
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