Over the weekend, President Rodrigo Duterte revealed that in just a month, he had sacked almost 100 government employees who are tipped to have dealings with corruption under his administration.
During the groundbreaking ceremony of a drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation center in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, the 71-year-old reiterated his campaign against corruption saying “I said better… do not [expletive] the government with its money, ’cause if you do, we cannot understand each other,” as quoted by GMA News.
“I have fired 92. I have fired so many customs official, BIR (Bureau of Internal Revenue), the revenue people and the regulatory boards of LTFRB (Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board), the one giving the franchises for public utilities. 92 all of them this month alone, March. I said go,” Duterte added.
The President even shared that he decided to forego a guy whom he was working with all the way since 1988.
“He was part of my team but when we were already in the government, and I heard that he was suggesting this and that, and I said you have to go,” Duterte explained.
