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Government, Law Enforcement, Politics

Drug Czar Scraps Operation Tokhang, Replaces It with Operationg Talklang

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – One of the first actions of Vice President Leni Robredo after she assumed the position of Drug Czar was to scrap  ‘Opertion Tokhang,’ the anti-illegal drug strategy of knocking on doors of drug suspects to bring them back to the fold of the law.  Critics say that Tokhang has resulted in the unnecessary killing  of drug suspects.

Instead, Robredo wants to pursue “Operation TalkLang.”  It would involve law enforcement authorities  who will refrain from violent and possiblly fatal confrontation with drug suspects.  Police officers, armed with just body cams and whistles, will simply calmly talk to the suspects to surrender.

Duterte supporters however find the new campaign  indicative of Robredo’s incompetent and clueless strategy in addressing the illegal drug problem. “She’s all just talk,” they said.

Government, Health & Medicine

Duterte To Rest For Three Days, Robredo Contracts Foot And Mouth Disease

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila bureau) – Malacanang has announced that President Rodrigo Duterte will take three days off from his very hectic schedule to rest while rumors point to Vice President Leni Robredo as having contracted the dreaded foot and mouth disease.

Foot and mouth disease doesn’t usually affect humans — only cattle — but Robredo must have been exposed to a mutant strain.

The rumors started to spread on social media after a CNN interview with Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano who was asked if he thinks Robredo started on the wrong foot upon her designation as Drug Czar.

Cayetano replied, “She started on the wrong mouth.”

 

Government, Law Enforcement, Politics, Religion

Robredo Wants Priests To Do Pray-overs During Drug Raids

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) –  In her first week as President Rodrigo Duterte’s designated Drug Czar, Vice President Leni Robredo has put forward a bunch of ideas which she thinks will improve the country’s war on (illegal) drugs.

She wants to stop Operation Tokhang.  She wants her commitee to welcome a U.N. investigation of the war on drugs.  She wants a bigger budget.  She wants the Commission on Human Rights and the Faith community represented on the committee.

Asked by The Adobo Chronicles what the Church can contribute to the campaign against illegal drugs, Robredo said she wants to assign priests and other Church leaders to join law enforcement teams when undertaking raids on suspected drug dealers and users.

”Instead of dealing with the suspects using guns, I want priests or bishops to pray-over the suspects, hoping that they will surrender peacefully.  This will avoid any violent or fatal confrontation with the police.”