DRUG lords may be bankrolling destabilization efforts against President Rodrigo Duterte without the knowledge of civil society groups campaigning against the government’s war on illegal drugs, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano said on Friday.

DEEP POCKETS Senator Alan Peter Cayetano tells reporters it was too obvious for drug lords to confront the police or President Rodrigo Duterte directly, so what they did was to look for an issue that they could exploit and hope it would lead to the President’s ouster. PHOTO BY RUY L. MARTINEZ