VACC, lawmakers back Duterte declaration

THE VOLUNTEERS Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) on Saturday condemned the deadly blast in Davao City and backed President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to heighten security measures nationwide through the declaration of a “State of Lawless Violence,” as it called on the public to rally behind the President’s efforts to fight terrorism and criminality.

The VACC will call on the President to “suppress terrorism and illegal drugs which seem to have joined forces to stop the enforcement of laws against these lawless elements,” said the group’s founding chairman, Dante Jimenez.