The United Nations, he said, should return Manila’s financial contributions.
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“And here is a senator complaining when, one day I will tell you that her driver, who was her lover was the one also collecting money for her during the campaign”, he said.
Sky News met Marissa Resido, a mother of six from the Tondo slums – her husband Rolando was a meth user, and was killed by police hours after they took him away to “surrender”. “You have done nothing anyway”.
He accused the United Nations of ignoring the plight of the country. “Nothing. Never. Except to criticize”, he told the Davao City audience.
These drug trafficking happened because de Lima allowed it, Duterte said.
Almost 600 suspected drug peddlers and users have been killed in police operations since Duterte took power six weeks ago, police say, but rights groups put the number at more than 1,000. Suspected vigilantes committed another 900 unexplained murders, and Duterte has accused dozens of political figures and officials of involvement in the drug trade.
All allegations of killings and extrajudicial executions must be promptly and thoroughly investigated, ” said the experts, urging the authorities to take immediate and necessary actions to protect all persons from targeted killings and extrajudicial executions. “Ready to ‘see for myself, ‘” she tweeted Friday.
President Duterte cited again the agencies like the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) which had been in his list of most corrupt agencies.
Duterte also belittled United Nations work in the Philippines without providing facts, raising questions, for example, about the performance of the world body’s agency that fights hunger.
But Duterte’s spokesman Martin Andanar said the public supported the crackdown.
The senator, a former justice secretary, is set to conduct a Senate probe on August 22-23 on the alleged extrajudicial killings.
On Thursday, de Lima added in a statement that the attack from the “highest official of the land” had left her feeling powerless.
He also threatened to impose martial law if the country’s judiciary refuses to cooperate with him in his anti-drug operation. “My orders are for the police to go out and hunt for criminals”.
Duterte responded by warning legislators not to interfere with his campaign, saying they could be killed if they blocked efforts aimed at improving the country.
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However necessary, he added, responses to the illicit drug trade must be carried out in full compliance with national and worldwide obligations and should respect the human rights of each person.
