THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Friday disclosed that the government’s anti-drug campaign has so far netted P60.13 billion worth of narcotics.
The seizures consisted of 7,782.26 kg of shabu; 89.32 kg of cocaine; 136,916 pieces of ecstasy tablets; and 7,347.67 kg of marijuana confiscated from July 2022 to April this year.
According to the PDEA, it conducted 107,568 operations across the country during the period, resulting in the arrest of 145,064 suspects, 9,283 of whom were tagged as “high-value targets.”
A total of 1,439 drug dens and four clandestine shabu laboratories were dismantled during the same period.
Meanwhile, 29,408 out of 42,000 villages have been declared drug-free while 6,103 were still in the clearing process.
During his third State of the Nation Address in July last year, President Marcos pledged to pursue a bloodless anti-narcotics drive, emphasizing that extermination of suspects was not a part of his administration’s agenda.
