The advice of former President and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada to the public is to support President Duterte war on drugs, warning the country could become a “narco state” should the government fail in its bid to dismantle the drug syndicates.
“This is very dangerous,” he said.
“For the sake of our country, let us unite and support President Duterte,” who, he said, has been “making a great stand against these drug lords.”
In a statement on Monday, Mayor Estrada said traffickers and operators of “big-time” drug laboratories have “managed to run their illegal drug trade unhampered in the past decades because government officials in power are protecting them.”
He pointed to the existence of big drug laboratories in some provinces.
“You know, every election, there are candidates – mayors, congressmen, governors, they ask for political donations, campaign funds, from drug lords. Because these drug lords have the money,” he explained during the distribution of motorcycles to the first batch of Drug Abuse Resistance Education instructors who have been teaching elementary public school students in Manila and Pasay.
