{"id":236767,"date":"2019-11-06T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=236767"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:57:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:57:25","slug":"robredo-accepts-appointment-as-anti-drugs-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/06\/robredo-accepts-appointment-as-anti-drugs-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Robredo accepts appointment as anti-drugs czar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FVPLeniRobredoPH%2Fvideos%2F537979130097443%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>MANILA\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; Vice President Maria Leonor \u201cLeni\u201d Robredo on Wednesday accepted President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s appointment designating her as the co-chairperson of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Sa dulo, ang pinakamahalagang konsiderasyon para sa akin ay simple lang: Kung ito ang pagkakataon para matigil ang patayan ng mga inosente at mapanagot ang kailangang managot, papasanin ko ito, kaya tinatanggap ko ang trabaho na ibinibigay sa akin ng Pangulo<\/em>\u00a0(At the end, the most important consideration for me is simple: If this is the only chance to stop the killings of innocents and hold those responsible accountable, I&#8217;ll carry the burden, that&#8217;s why I am accepting the job given by the President,&#8221; she said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a memorandum dated October 31 and released on Tuesday, the Chief Executive designated Robredo as co-chairperson of the anti-drug body which is headed by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).<\/p>\n<p>The designation was made following demands by critics and detractors that enforcement power should be given to Robredo \u201cthrough an official correspondence, and not just through a verbal or electronic communication\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference, Robredo clarified that she did not air concerns over the anti-illegal drug campaign to chase a higher position in the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Hindi ko hiniling ito, sa Pangulo nanggaling ang ideyang ito<\/em>\u00a0(I did not ask for this, this offer came from the President),&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In accepting the role, Robredo said she wanted drug lords pursued and cops involved in narco-trafficking jailed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Tinatanong nila ako kung handa ba ako sa trabahong ito, ang tanong ko: Handa ba kayo para sa akin.<\/em>\u00a0Mr. President,\u00a0<em>dalawa&#8217;t kalahating taon nalang ang naiiwan sa iyong administrasyon, hindi pa naman huli ang lahat puwede pa nating pagtulungan ito<\/em>\u00a0(They are asking me if I am ready. My question to them is: Are you ready for me? Mr. President, there are two and a half years left in your administration, it\u2019s not too late, we can work on this together),&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Vice President Maria Leonor \u201cLeni\u201d Robredo on Wednesday accepted President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s appointment designating her as the co-chairperson of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":236768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236767","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\/236767","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=236767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236769,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236767\/revisions\/236769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}