Duterte to PSG: Your loyalty should be to the Constitution, flag, not me
President Duterte took time Sunday to thank members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) for providing him and his family security during a thanksgiving dinner attended by their families at Malacañang Park.
“I am happy that you secure my person but just the same I would like to caution everybody na I do not cultivate adoration or personal loyalty,” the President said in his pep talk.
“Just remain loyal to the Con-
stitution and I’d be happy. Really, just honor the flag. Pareho tayo trabahante lang ng gobyerno. (We are all government workers). I came from a poor family and rose from the ranks, too,” he added.
The President apologized for not meeting the PSG at the start of his term due to his tight schedule and lauded them for their loyalty.
He urged the elite troops to help the police in the campaign against illegal drugs “because we cannot maintain order throughout the land every inch of the territory. That is impossible. You have to help us. We have to finish this problem because it is threatening our country.” He cited the figures of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency that there are about three million drug dependents. And that was two years ago. He said the country realized the enormity of the drug menace when he made it the center of his campaign against illegal drugs.
PSG commander Brig. Gen. Rolando Bautista also reminded his men to “step in cadence with the Commander- in-Chief because we will be the one to protect him.”
Duterte also took the occasion to warn every government employee not to shortchange the Filipino. He said there are government employees who no longer get back to work after lunch break and who either while their time in the malls or inside movie houses while getting paid for eight hours of work.
“So ang bayad naming good for eight hours then you only report for three to four hours, that’s swindling actually. You are swindling the Filipino people of their money. Eh di magtrabaho kayo,” the former Davao City Mayor said.