VICE President Maria Leonor Robredo has hurtled so fast like a cannonball out of the presidential appointment system it’s impossible even for a media organization like The Manila Times to keep track of what she is doing and of her many plans and initiatives.

First, almost like the Pope speaking ex cathedra (with authority) on a matter of faith and morals, Robredo declared that there should be no more deaths in anti-drug operations, and suggested it was time to scrap Oplan Tokhang as it was anti-poor and replace it with a new anti-illegal drug campaign. She apparently thought she now had the authority to make policy in the anti-drug campaign.

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