LP Uses Drug Money for Destabilization Plot Against Duterte Administration

The Liberal Party (LP) is likely using drug money in funding the destabilization plot against the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Monday, March 26, as he echoed a similar statement made by Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano last week.

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The attacks against the President’s war on drugs have been vicious and non-stop. We therefore do not discount the possibility that some human rights groups have become unwitting tools of drug lords to hinder the strides made by the Administration,” Spox Harry Roque told reporters in a press briefing in Malacañang, Monday morning.

“To continue to do and thrive in the drug business, these drug lords can easily use their drug money to fund destabilization efforts against the government,” he added, emphasizing that drug lords have lost billions pesos following the arrest of numerous drug personalities, raids in drug laboratories, and voluntary surrender of drug users.

Roque did not mention as who is planning the destabilization plot against Duterte. However, political analysts strongly believe that he was referring to LP. It can be recalled that Jose Luis Martin “Chito” Gascon was appointed as chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in 2015 by then-president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.

And as we also know, LP senators and its allies are accusing President Duterte of allowing the alleged extrajudicial killings (EJKs) related to the government’s intensified war on drugs. In addition, former CHR and now Senator Leila de Lima is still in jail for her alleged involvement in the proliferation of illegal drugs inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP).

“We’re looking at the whole human rights mechanism that’s supposed to be there to assist the government in fulfilling its human rights obligation. Now it’s name-and-shame. It’s being used for politics, for business. Unwittingly, some of the NGOs are being used by drug lords. That’s the reality.” Sec. Cayetano told reporters last Saturday, March 24.



“For example, one outspoken NGO here in the Philippines who’s making accusations left and right … part of their advocacy is to legalize drugs. So you see they are pushing an advocacy, an ideology. I’m saying it’s not an impartial and independent investigation,” he added, without mentioning the name of the NGO in question.

Contributed by Renato Pasayao