By Argyll Cyrus B. Geducos
Malacañang said yesterday that there is a possibility that human rights groups are being used by drug lords to discredit the government’s anti-drug campaign.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the multi-billion peso illegal drugs industry have lost billions of pesos as a result of the campaign.
“The illegal drug trade is a multi-billion-peso industry and billions have been lost with the voluntary surrender of more than a million drug users, arrest of tens of thousands of drug personalities, and seizure of billion-peso clandestine drug laboratories and factories,” Roque said.
“The attacks against the President’s war on drugs have been vicious and non-stop,” Roque said. “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,” Roque said.
He also said that drug lords can easily fund destabilization plots against the government to enable them to continue thriving.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano has said that some non-government organizations are unwittingly being used by drugs lords to impede efforts to curb the country’s drug problem.
