Most disingenuous was Andanar’s claim that President Duterte, in waging the drug war, is just fulfilling a campaign promise in the May 2016 elections. “The government is not spending a single centavo on these ads and TV stations are carrying them for free,” Andanar told reporters at an event in a Manila hotel. They must understand, this is a war and there are casualties,” Andanar said.
More than 2,000 people have reportedly died in the Philippine Drug War.