President Rodrigo Duterte late Wednesday warned mayors involved in the illegal drug trade will suffer the same fate as Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa.
"There are still mayors, still there, playing the narco-politics game, and I'm warning them again. You might not want to hear it. You will not only lose your funds, you will lose your life," Duterte said in a news conference in Davao City upon arriving from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Peru.
Duterte was responding to a question from reporter Jonathan Miller, the Asia correspondent of Britain's Channel 4 news, about drug-related killings in his administration.
"You now realize there so many municipal and city... one died in prison," he said, talking about officials involved in the illegal drugs.
"How do you expect... to assume rather, that they were all killed by people of government, when the mayors themselves were into it?"
On November 5, Espinosa was killed inside the Baybay City Provincial Jail in what authorities have described as a shootout, leading to a Senate probe on the killing.
Duterte identified Espinosa as among local government officials involved in drugs last August, giving him an ultimatum to surrender. Espinosa was arrested last month on charges after a raid at his home in August turned up drugs and ammunition.
Espinosa was the second mayor accused by Duterte to be killed in the past two months. Eight days before Espinosa's death, Datu Saudi Ampatuan Mayor Samsuan Dimaukom was killed in a firefight with police in Makilala, Cotabato. Like Espinosa, Dimaukom had also denied Duterte's allegations about his drug links.
"There are still mayors, still there, playing the narco-politics game, and I'm warning them again. You might not want to hear it. You will not only lose your funds, you will lose your life," Duterte said in a news conference in Davao City upon arriving from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Peru.
Duterte was responding to a question from reporter Jonathan Miller, the Asia correspondent of Britain's Channel 4 news, about drug-related killings in his administration.
"You now realize there so many municipal and city... one died in prison," he said, talking about officials involved in the illegal drugs.
"How do you expect... to assume rather, that they were all killed by people of government, when the mayors themselves were into it?"
On November 5, Espinosa was killed inside the Baybay City Provincial Jail in what authorities have described as a shootout, leading to a Senate probe on the killing.
Duterte identified Espinosa as among local government officials involved in drugs last August, giving him an ultimatum to surrender. Espinosa was arrested last month on charges after a raid at his home in August turned up drugs and ammunition.
Espinosa was the second mayor accused by Duterte to be killed in the past two months. Eight days before Espinosa's death, Datu Saudi Ampatuan Mayor Samsuan Dimaukom was killed in a firefight with police in Makilala, Cotabato. Like Espinosa, Dimaukom had also denied Duterte's allegations about his drug links.
Source: gmanetwork
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