"Where did Robredo get her figures?"
"Where did Robredo get her figures?"
The other day, Mrs. Leni Robredo released her over-hyped report on the government’s war against illegal drugs which she claimed she has culled from her 18-day stint as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Illegal Drugs.
As usual, Robredo again tried to sound intellectual in her press conference, citing figure after figure in her effort to refute the government’s claim to limited success on its illegal drug campaign, and in the process, paint a doomsday scenario for the war on illegal drugs.
In her report, Robredo claimed the government’s success can only be pegged at one out of a possible score of 100. And if that was to be the basis of a grade, the government only scored a measly one percent.
As basis, Robredo flaunted figures as if they could effectively back up her claim.
Robredo claimed: “More than 1.2-million users had surrendered since 2016, while 300,000 had been arrested in police operations, for a total of 1.5 million. If we use the 4 million estimate of drug users and pushers, and only 1.5 million had been accounted for, where are the 2.5 million?”
Well, that alone betrays her cluelessness. How can she claim the government only scored one percent out of a possible 100 when the number of illegal drug users and pushers neutralized constitute 37.5 percent of the total 4 million estimated drug users and pushers?
Robredo adds that about P1.3 trillion worth of shabu is peddled in the streets annually. Now, if 1.5 million users and pushers have already been neutralized, then that leaves us 2.5-million users and pushers to divide the P1.3 trillion worth of meth among themselves. And that would mean, they would be enjoying no less than P520,000 worth of shabu yearly.
Wow! Just where do these drug addicts get their “dough for drugs?” I didn’t think we had that number of millionaires who waste their money on illegal drugs (I assumed they are millionaires as if they spend P520,000 yearly on drugs alone, they would still have to be spending more than, if not the same amount for their illegal drug consumption on other expenditures).
And because of her “findings,” Robredo recommends the recalibration of the funding for the illegal drug campaign saying the campaign has been "lopsided" in favor of law enforcement.
What? So she wants the illegal drug campaign to be even for both the law enforcement and the users and pushers? Or even a reversal? My God! Is she pushing for the illegal drug users, pushers and traffickers to score a victory over our law enforcers? Robredo must be really out of her mind!
I am not aware of what really transpired during her stint with the Inter-agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs except for what is being aired and published in the news and for whatever came out from her mouth.
But as far as I remember, when she accepted the ICAD job, she herself declared she needed to attend its meeting so she can gather data on the government’s war on illegal drugs, a tacit admission she had no or just little information on the matter. Which then leads us to the question: where did she get her figures when she declared before the international community that more than 7,000 people were killed in the first year of the government’s anti-illegal drug war, which has now risen to more than 27,0000 per claim of her camp?
She also announced she refused to attend the briefing called for by her ICAD co-chair, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino, to address her request for the information she was seeking then. So, where did she get her figures?
Whoever provided her the figures she had cited and whoever wrote the speech for her did an awfully great job of making her appear stupid. And they have been consistent in making her look that way every time she opens her mouth.
Binabagayan lang personalidad niya.