{"id":174742,"date":"2018-08-03T00:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T04:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=174742"},"modified":"2018-08-03T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T04:05:06","slug":"duterte-reiterates-warning-vs-gun-hires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/03\/duterte-reiterates-warning-vs-gun-hires\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte reiterates warning vs. \u2018gun for hires\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_166939\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166939\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180605-ph-AF5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166939\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180605-ph-AF5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180605-ph-AF5.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180605-ph-AF5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180605-ph-AF5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180605-ph-AF5-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I think the President was referring to all hired guns because if nobody recruited, there wouldn\u2019t be cops joining them,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. (File photo: ALFRED FRIAS\/PRESIDENTIAL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday said President Rodrigo R. Duterte referred to all hired guns when he vowed to \u201cneutralize or terminate\u201d policemen engaged in gun-for-hire activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Lahat po ng gumagamit na mga<\/em>\u00a0gun for hire\u00a0<em>\u2018no, dahil kung wala naman pong magre<\/em>-recruit,\u00a0<em>siguro eh wala namang sasalihan ang ating mga kapulisan<\/em>\u00a0(I think the President was referring to all hired guns because if nobody recruited, there wouldn\u2019t be cops joining them),\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in an interview over state-run Radyo Pilipinas.<\/p>\n<p>On July 31, Duterte, speaking before security and intelligence officers, warned them against joining the illegal drug trade and becoming hired killers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I promised you that including uniformed personnel.\u00a0<em>Huwag kayong pumasok diyan sa droga, \u2018yang mga<\/em>\u00a0murder-for-hire (Don\u2019t engage in the illegal drug trade, in murder-for-hire),\u201d Duterte said during the 68th National Security Council and 69th National Intelligence Coordinating Agency Founding Anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can be very sure there will be a project for you and really that is to neutralize or terminate you.<em>\u00a0Kung hindi ko ganunin, walang mangyari sa ating bayan<\/em>\u00a0(If I don\u2019t do that, nothing will happen to our country) at this time when we are all bombarded with drugs, nobody seems to obey the law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte also reiterated his commitment to protect soldiers and police personnel who performed their duty in accordance with law.<\/p>\n<p>Roque, however, expressed confidence that the increased salary of soldiers and police personnel would prevent them from engaging in illegal activities.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNgayong dinoble na po ang suweldo ng mga sundalo, wala na pong dahilan para magreklamo ang mga sundalo na kulang iyong kanilang mga suweldo<\/em>\u00a0(Now that we have doubled the salary of our soldiers, they don\u2019t have a reason to complain that it\u2019s not enough),\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Doubling soldiers\u2019 and police salaries\u2019 is one of Duterte\u2019s campaign promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday said President Rodrigo R. Duterte referred to all hired guns when he vowed to \u201cneutralize or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":166939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}