Duterte confirms someone in his family used drugs. Guess who

President Rodrigo Duterte has confirmed that someone in his family used illegal drugs— but that person’s no longer alive. In his speech before politikos and newly appointed officers of the League of Municipalities of the Pilippines Tuesday (Oct. 11), Duterte revealed that his grandfather used opium. He disclosed his grandfather’s use of illegal drugs as he recalled Hong Kong’s difficulty in solving the illegal drug menace after an English company had the monopoly of the opium trade. “It’s like a case of Hong Kong noon when there was this English company given the sole right to sell opium. It took the Chinese four generations to entirely wipe out, including my grandfather. Nago-opium ‘yun. Noon kasi nahuli eh, maliit pa ako pero malakas na mag mahjong, malakas pang magyot-yot ng opium ang buwang,” Duterte said. The campaign to wipe out illegal drugs has been one of the priority programs of the current administration. Duterte has repeatedly said he wants to solve the drug menace in the country because it destroys society and so it could no longer affect future generations.