Former foreign secretary Roberto R. Romulo is supposed to take things easy for health reasons. He has even suspended his columns in Philippine Star until November. But he just had to send out an urgent appeal to his fellow members of the business community. And he was surprised by the reactions.
The appeal has gone viral. Someone translated it to Tagalog and Cebuano.
As expected, it has elicited the ire of Duterte fanatics.
Read what Romulo has written:
Boxing champ and Sen. Manny Pacquiao and President Rodrigo Duterte used to be allies.
Despite his being a born-again Christian, Pacquiao did not condemn the extra-judicial killings that became a daily occurrence as Duterte waged his war on drugs. He supported Duterte’s initiative to re-impose death penalty. He voted for the abhorrent anti-terror law.
He was silent when former senator Antonio Trillanes IV exposed Duterte’s bank deposits in hundreds of millions of pesos in 2016 which remain unexplained up to now.
Now, he talks about corruption in the Duterte government.