INSTEAD of merely refuting the authenticity of documents being spread by ‘fake news peddlers’ specifically the vloggers, Presidential Adviser on Poverty Alleviation Secretary Larry Gadon has dared the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to file a case against them.
Gadon provided Good Riddance the letter he submitted to PDEA Director-General Moro Virgilio Lazo persuading the latter to file cases “against these evil personalities making mockery of PDEA.”
He said fake documents said to have come from PDEA have been circulated by some vloggers in their bid to damage the reputation of President Ferdinand ‘”Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
Gadon decided to take the matter to compel PDEA to pursue the filing of cases against vloggers who kept on claiming that they have a copy of the agency’s watch-list or the National Drug Information System which include the name of the President.
The presidential adviser said that PDEA’s denial that the President was never on their watch-list would not be enough to discourage these vloggers from continuously disseminating fake news.
“While PDEA has issued statements denying the authenticity of the documents that peddle lies impressing upon the public that the President was at one time became a subject of a drug operation which are all lies and fabricated, with due respect, I deem that it (denial) is not enough,” Gadon claimed.
Earlier, PDEA issued a statement contradicting former President Rodrigo Duterte’s assertion that the agency had provided him with evidence when he was still the mayor of Davao linking Marcos to the drug list.
The PDEA has reiterated that the President was never included in its NDIS database since the time it was created in 2002 and up to the present.
Gadon cited the need to deal with the ‘vloggers’ squarely by filing a case against them so that they would not do the same to other government agencies, especially its heads.
He said he would ask the Public Attorney’s Office chief Persida Rueda-Acosta and the Office of the Solicitor General to gather evidence prior to the filing of cases against the vloggers.
