IT'S just two weeks to 2022 after all and people tend to start counting what President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has done to merit a niche in the country's history.

How he has performed in eradicating the drug menace will certainly be on top of the count. Though he realized early on that his electoral campaign promise of ending illegal drugs in six months was undoable, he nonetheless accomplished much in this respect such that people now generally feel safe going home from work or school at night, unlike before his administration when robberies, rapes and killings by drug addicts were a daily fare of newspaper reports and media broadcasts.