Duterte: If I win, put up more funeral parlors

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Manila—Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday that the public should put up more funeral parlors to accommodate drug dealers once he becomes the next president of the country.

“If I become president, I advise you people to put up several funeral parlor businesses because I am against illegal drugs… I might kill someone because of it,” Duterte was quoted as saying in a Philippine Star report.

Duterte warned members of drug cartels to flee from the country or commit suicide.

“If elected president of the Philippines, my priority is to stop criminality and corruption in the government,” he said in the same report.

Duterte is known for ruling with an iron fist and his crusade against the outlaws. In October, he was reported to have given the same warning to drug pushers in Davao. A day after, Davao City police reported that a number of drug dealers have disappeared from the city.

Duterte has filed his certificate of candidacy today. He is running under the banner of PDP-Laban. He has replaced Martin Diño as the party’s presidential candidate. Diño withdrew from the 2016 presidential poll in October.