On Sunday, President Rodrigo Duterte fired Vice-President Leni Robredo as “anti-drug tsar.”
The vice-president, who is a staunch critic of the president, was called a “scatterbrain” days prior and was said to not be trusted with state secrets, according to Al Jazeera.
Robredo just lasted about three weeks in her anti-drug lead role, which she swore to reform despite all of the allegations that police were committing crimes against humanity in killing thousands of drug suspects.
“The vice-president resorted to unduly baiting international attention on the matter,” the president’s spokesman Salvador Panelo said in a statement announcing Robredo’s immediate dismissal.
“Essentially, what the vice-president has done is to embarrass our country,” Panelo added.
“I do not trust her,” Duterte told reporters on Tuesday who took issue on Robredo meeting US embassy and United Nations drug experts.
More than two weeks after accepting the post, Robredo “has not presented any new programme that she envisioned to implement. In a campaign where people’s lives are at risk, a day is an eternity,” Panelo said.
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