War on drugs no place for amateurs and students

DANTE Jimenez, chairman of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission, is indubitably right when he contends that the government’s fight against illegal drugs is not a fit place to station Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo, whom he described as a student who has no doable proposals to address the nation’s drug problem.

There is scarcely room for argument on this point. The illegal drugs problem is a grave national and international problem that confronts almost all nations, and very few have succeeded in neutralizing or wiping out the threat. As a priority law enforcement problem, illegal drugs rank up high alongside the fight against terrorism and insurgency.