Paolo Duterte accepts Trillanes dare for comprehensive drug test

DAVAO CITY – Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte on Friday said he accepted the challenge of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for them “to undergo a comprehensive drug test.”

Earlier, Trillanes said he felt alluded to when Duterte claimed that a senator was into cocaine and challenged the vice mayor to undergo a drug test.

Trillanes also challenged Duterte to name the senator in public instead of making public a “blind item.”

In a statement released by the City Information Office, Duterte expanded his challenge and said all senators should undergo a comprehensive drug test “considering that most of public servants have already been doing it in support of the anti-illegal drugs campaign of President Rodrigo Duterte.”

“If the rank and file could submit themselves to drug testing, the more should those elected in public office. Many of them, if not all, may have submitted themselves to a simple drug test before, but I encourage them to undergo the more precise examinations available in Metro Manila that would not just detect illegal drugs in urine or blood but even in hair follicles,” Duterte said in the statement.

He said the hair follicle drug test alone could determine seven major drugs such as cocaine, opiates, methamphetamine, marijuana, ketamine, and benzodiazepine even if a person used any of them a few years back.

Duterte had earlier undergone drug test, conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, and he came out clean.

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