{"id":223346,"date":"2019-07-17T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T23:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=223346"},"modified":"2019-07-17T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T23:50:32","slug":"duterte-vows-to-wage-war-vs-corruption-until-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/17\/duterte-vows-to-wage-war-vs-corruption-until-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte vows to wage war vs. corruption until 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_222529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222529\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JAL19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222529\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JAL19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JAL19.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JAL19-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte during a ceremony at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace on July 11, 2019. TOTO LOZANO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>MANILA<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to dedicate his last three years as chief executive in weeding out graft and corruption in the government.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Pastor Apollo Quiboloy early Wednesday morning in Davao City, Duterte also vowed to preserve the accomplishment of his administration since he assumed office midway of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d like to maintain the momentum of (campaign against) graft. You know, Pastor, I will not live forever. But maybe as President I have this &#8212; not everybody is given a chance to address to the people,&#8221; he told the founder of Kingdom of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said everyone in government knows that he has \u201czero tolerance\u201d for people involved in corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The President said he recently suspended about 64 officials and employees of the Bureau of Customs due to corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from eradicating corruption, Duterte vowed to continue the government&#8217;s drive against illegal drugs and crime in the country. The chief executive boasted that the drug situation in the country is &#8220;quite low&#8221; and therefore the crime rate decreased also.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I promised was if elected president, I would return the right of the citizens to use the streets, alleys, parks and all without fear. I think I made my mark very clear,\u201d said Duterte, the country\u2019s first leader from Mindanao explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are less drugs on the streets. But I intend to keep it low if not eradicate all. That is one I would like to maintain,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to latest data from July 1, 2016 to February 28, 2019, at least 123,441 anti-drug operations were carried out by law enforcers, where about 5,281 drug personalities were killed and 176,021 were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In the same period, the government was able to dismantle a total of 309 drug dens and clandestine laboratories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to dedicate his last three years as chief executive in weeding out graft and corruption &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":222529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223346","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=223346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223348,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223346\/revisions\/223348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}