PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said he fired two Malacañang officials over alleged corruption. I just fired two employees from Malacañang for making a call and suggesting that, you know, they were suggesting,” Duterte said, without naming names. This was not the first time Duterte announced to the public his decision to remove corrupt government officials. In May, Duterte also fired Dangerous Drugs Board Chairman Benjamin Reyes for supposedly contradicting the government’s official data on drug addicts in the country. Duterte won the presidency on a platform of eradicating corruption in government and ending the country’s illegal drug problem.

Source: Manila Times October 06, 2017 05:15 UTC