MANILA, Philippines — “Punch-drunk” or someone who has received several heavy blows to the head.
This was how President Rodrigo Duterte described Sen. Manny Pacquiao after the boxing champ claimed that P10.4 billion funds from the social amelioration program were missing.
Duterte once again took a jab at the senator over the latter’s claim of corruption in several government agencies.
“My friends, don’t believe that P10 billion is missing,” Duterte said, speaking in Filipino, during his weekly taped briefing that aired on Monday night. “I have a term for that. It is not mine. I just borrowed it. But I think Pacquiao is punch-drunk.”
“To be talking about P10 billion from…
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