Excerpt from the speech of President Rodrigo Duterte during Pagcor’s Kick-off

Alam mo I am not a saint. I have also my faults in life. But corruption has never been acceptable to me. I am in the midst of firing people. I intend to fire another maybe 70 or 49 policemen and three generals for corruption.

This is really a purging regime. I think that I’ll be spending a lot of time just to clean up the government and would consume four years for the time that I would be there. Ayaw ko na lang mag-drama.

Lahat naman tayo ayaw ng corruption, ayaw ng mali. And maski dito sa gambling, there are so many allied crimes with it.Itong pulis, isa ito. Kung hindi mag-abang diyan ng mga kikidnapin, mag-extortion, kung ano-ano na.

Please do not give them the luxury to extort. All you have to do is call anybody in government, it could be the Secretary, Quitain here, o kay Andrea, Fred Lim. And I will take care of it. Kung may problema ka even in the locals, huwag kang magbigay. Kasi kung magkaalaman tayo, it will just sour up our relationship.

All I have to do is for you to cooperate and I said do not give in to extortionist. Be it the police, the BIR, Customs, kasi ‘pag malaman ko, I’ll make it hard for you.

Kasi pati kayo, you are abetting a thing which we have put our hearts into, itong corruption. I am firing another chairman of an entity in government maybe this week and another set of mga policemen.

Either you go out of the service and look for a lucrative job, maybe cleaning the garbage there sa basura or… I will not hesitate to… I have fired so many before and I will fire so many of you now and in the future.

Graft and corruption. It has been pulling us down through the years. I don’t know but I think it was mine kasi may nangyari eh and every administration has a component there of corruption and crime.