Tolentino: Release names of celebrities in drugs

SORSOGON CITY, Philippines – “It’s very necessary to divulge the names of show business personalities involved in illegal drugs,” administration senatorial candidate Francis Tolentino said during a press conference here Sunday.

He said, as a former Metro Manila Film Festival chairman, he firmly supported the idea of police director General Oscar Albayalde to name artists involved in prohibited drugs.

“They are not different from politicians who get into drugs. The people idolize artists. What if they are into drugs?” he said.

He said actors should serve as role models in doing good because they touch the lives of millions of Filipino youth.

He said he was confident that should the Philippine National Police release the names of showbiz personalities into illegal drugs, it would be after validation and verification “in order to be fair.”

Tolentino, a former political adviser of President Rodrigo Duterte before he decided to run for senator in the May elections, was in Albay Sunday on his way to attend the proclamation rally for Sen. Chiz Escudero who is gunning for the gubernatorial post of Sorsogon. /cbb