VOL. 9 ISSUE 164 • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016
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IN MEMORY. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio offers flowers and prayers for the victims of Sept. 2 bomb blast at the memorial along Roxas Avenue which was unveiled yesterday afternoon. Lean Daval Jr.
VM TO SENATORS: TAKE DRUG TEST By FUNNY PEARL A. GAJUNERA
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ICE Mayor Paolo Duterte has challenged members of the Philippine Senate to submit themselves to drug testing to show to the public once and for all that their systems are clear from prohibited substances. In fact, the eldest son of President Rodrigo Duterte wants to find out what is stopping the Senate from carrying out the said drug test, which is currently the one being administered to all government employees. “What makes the senate different? If the ordinary people and offices of the government conducts drug test, why
can’t they do it? What’s stopping them?” the vice mayor asked said. “Are they different from Filipino citizens…that they need to shame me first before they submit themselves to drug test?” he added. Vice Mayor Duterte pointed out that most government officials have already submitted themselves to drug testing in support of President Rodrigo Dutete’s intensified anti-illegal drug campaign. Last week, a world war erupted between the vice mayor and Senator Antonio Trillanes after the former alluded that a certain senator
was a cocaine user. When the senator heard of the vice-mayor allegation, he immediately challenged the Davao official to undergo a comprehensive drug test in Metro Manila. Vice Mayor Duterte countered that he will only subject himself to the said drug test only if it is conducted at a “high-precision” drug testing center in Bonificio Global Center, Taguig, which can detect substance abuse merely from hair samples of the suspected user. The vice mayor said that he will only reveal the name of the senator he was refer-
ring to when the evidence against him is already in his (Vice Mayor Duterte) hands. “I am still waiting for the evidence they are still gathering. I will reveal the name [once] I have [them],” he said. Vice mayor Duterte said he has also received advise from his father, President Duterte, to ignore “senseless” people who would like to undermine his reputation. “I was adviced by, I don’t know how I should call him, my father or the president, that I should ignore those senseless people in my life, so just do your job and I’ll do my job,” he said.
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