Veteran journalist Ramon Tulfo said his friend, former President Rodrigo Duterte, rightly belongs in the ICC Detention Facility in The Hague, Netherlands, because of the killings under his drug war.
“Tingnan mo yung ginawa nilang executions. Hindi 6,000 lang yung pinatay, mga 30,000. Grabe, sobra,” Tulfo said in an interview on the KC After Hours podcast on YouTube.
“Tama lang na andun siya sa The Hague. Kasalanan din nya. Hindi siya nakinig. He allowed himself to be surrounded by sycophants and boot lickers,” he added.
Tulfo admitted he was the one who pushed Duterte to run in the 2016 presidential elections, and felt dismay after his term.
He said once Duterte assumed office, he was fenced off by Bong Go, and even Tulfo’s articles about the administration never reached his friend.
“Binakuran ni Bong Go si Presidente. I wasn’t able to have access to him. I would have told him, “Bay, mali na yang ginagawa ninyo. Why should you execute small people? These are also victims of drugs pati yung mga user,”Tulfo recounted.
“I wrote stories para makaabot lang sa kanya. I wrote stories about his administration. Hindi nakakarating sa kanya. But I know, pag tungkol my stories in my columns, opinions, hindi pinapabasa sa kanya.”
Tulfo noted Duterte built two large drug rehabilitation centers, but they remained empty.
He also claimed rewards for killings during the drug war came from druglords aligned with Duterte’s administration.
“Gusto nila patay nang patay kasi may reward. And I heard that the rewards came from druglords who were rivals of their druglords, druglords that they are supporting. Sabi ko, “Oh my God, why?” Tulfo said.
“I thought there would be change and then during his time, President Digong was blindsided by the people around him.”
For Tulfo, Duterte’s administration was the worst hypocrite.
“Let’s face it. I’d like to face reality because he was my friend. I was also behind what they were doing, it’s partly my fault. And now I realized, Oh my God, what have I done? What have we done?” he asked.
“The Duterte administration was, I would say, the greatest hypocrite. It was hypocrisy,” Tulfo declared. # (ZIA LUNA)
