MANILA, Philippines — “Don’t ever question my motives.”Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. had this to say as he hit back at Health Secretary Francisco Duque III over a supposedly missed opportunity to acquire 50 million syringes from the United States. Don’t ever, Duque, ever, question my motives,” Locsin said in a tweet Monday. https://t.co/PIdPFYa8sE — Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) December 13, 2021“Kasi tayo ay sa parehong administrasyon, ayaw ko mababuy ang reputation ng [Duterte] admin. ADVERTISEMENT(We are in the same administration, I don’t want the reputation of the Duterte admin to be tarnished.) Locsin was reacting to Duque’s denial that the government “dropped the ball again” on the procurement of the syringes.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 13, 2021 19:30 UTC