DAVAO CITY—President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday (March 5) swore he did not steal government funds but has his faults, like extrajudicial killings.
“Government is not perfect,” Duterte said at a meeting of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Eclac) in Cagayan de Oro City.
“Faults? Me? Plenty. But I don’t steal money,” he said. “I just have cases of extrajudicial killings. We will get there,” he added.
In his hour-long speech delivered in Bisaya, Duterte ranted at communist rebels, accusing them of using the poor in remote areas and extorting money from them.
“You are all bandits. You don’t have an ideology…
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