Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte said he has increased security for his family after his father, President Rodrigo Duterte’s exposé on the drug syndicates in the country.
The younger Duterte said they have intensified the security of their children to ensure their safety.
Paolo added that the Presidential Security Group secures them now.
He announced that he has scheduled a drug test for all the members of the 18th city council, including himself, before the start of its regular session on Tuesday.
The scheduled drug test is a show of support for his father, anti-drug campaign.
The younger Duterte said the city council is ready to conduct a drug test at any given time, to show that Davao City’s councilors are all drug free.
“Anytime. I have no problem with [drug tests],” the vice mayor said.
He said he has not received any information that there is a councilor in the city who is into drugs.
Paolo, however, revealed that since 1992 people have been linking him to the illegal drug trade.
He said that he has been accused of being a user, a pusher, a drug lord, and now a drug lord protector.
The President’s eldest son then joked that as years go by, his position in the drug syndicate also goes up.
He said that it would not matter to him if the police investigate him.
“It is now up to them on how they are going to investigate me,” Paolo said.