PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said he would fire more government officials as part of his effort to rid his administration of corruption.

"I’ll be firing about one undersecretary, one after the other. Ubusin ko talaga ‘yan (I will finish them off)... Even the Cabinet member, the first to go mga tao ko," Duterte said in a speech during a dinner party, hosted by Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco and his wife Wen at Sofitel Philippine Plaza on Thursday night.

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