Vice President Leni Robredo has only herself to blame if she was immediately fired as the country’s anti-drugs czar.
After over two weeks on the job, President Rodrigo Duterte must have seen enough. Two weeks is a long time to set your plans of action rolling. And without any positive action in sight, the President gave her the walking papers.
While Robredo was in the job, she did not do anything significant in terms of pursuing a plan of action. Prior to her appointment, she had been vocal in her opposition against the bloody drug war and insisted the problem was a health issue. Once appointed though, it was clear that Robredo did not carry to the office a briefcase of solutions. She came empty-handed and then wanted to dip her finger on every data available. She talked aplenty and did so little.
Robredo made a bold pronouncement that she would not stop in her fight against the illegal drug trade despite being fired as the anti-drug czar. She said her job is far from over but has only just begun despite being booted out of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD).
She vowed to reveal some of the things she found out during her short stint.
So it appears that Robredo came to the office without a briefcase of solution but stepped out with a closet of skeletons that she now wanted to expose. If that is the case, Robredo’s threat is empty. She could have done that while she was still co-chair of ICAD. To threaten to divulge acquired information by virtue of her office only after she was removed is very suspicious of her real intent.
Sadly, Robredo gave the impression that all the while she was in office, she had no intention of solving the problem or correcting was is wrong when she had all the opportunity to do so. She was there for a different agenda.
