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SONA 2020 Promise Tracker: Drugs & Crime

By Tita Valderama and Elijah Roderos | Jul 25, 2021 7:44 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte’s self-imposed deadline to eradicate illegal drugs and reduce criminality “within three to six months” has long passed, and Congress has yet to respond to his constant plea for the revival of the death penalty against drug-related crimes.

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SONA 2019 Promise Tracker: Drugs and Crime

By Elijah Roderos | Jul 24, 2020 2:30 PM

Expressing disappointment over his failure to deliver on a campaign promise to end the drug menace, President Rodrigo Duterte repeated in his 2019 SONA his request to Congress to pass a bill restoring the death penalty on drug-related crimes and plunder.