Duterte: Santiago fired for ‘blabbing’ before media over rehab center

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte fired Dangerous Drugs Board Chairman Dionisio Santiago for “blabbering” before media.

“He could have asked me for an audience, tell me all about it. I did not put him in his position to issue statements to the press. I assigned him there so he can talk to me when there is problem; to tell me if what I am doing is not enough and what should I do,” Duterte said at a news conference before leaving Vietnam to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting there.