President Rodrigo Duterte will lead the condemnation and public destruction of contraband luxury vehicles at Port Irene in Cagayan province today.
“I will go to Port Irene to destroy the Lamborghini and other sports cars there,” Duterte said in a recent speech.
He said that wrecking illegally imported vehicles is one of his ways to show authority over unlawful and corrupt people.
“As they [cars] arrive and if there is no consignee or the consignee is fictitious, unknown, AKA [also known as], or aliases, all of them will be destroyed. Those behind their importation have already grown rich from that trade,” the President added.
While expressing fondness for motorcycles, Duterte said he will also destroy these smuggled two-wheelers.
“There are motorcycles that would be destroyed there too. My heart will really bleed, but there’s nothing that I can do because the only way to settle this thing about smuggling is just to simply stop it,” he said.