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The Filipino Alliance For Transparency and Empowerment (FATE) said they have received reports that some members of the National Democratic Front have started to link local officials who have stopped or refused to pay revolutionary tax.
“It’s simply a case of extortion. Other NDF have also resorted to implicating innocent officials,” according to FATE spokesperson Jo Perez.
“President Duterte’s camp should review the list it has and make sure that they have solid evidence to back their allegation. Otherwise, it could spiral out of control,” Perez said.
“The list of govt officials being linked to drug trafficking could also endanger their lives and their families,” Perez said.
“It’s easy to accuse but to prove it is another story,” Perez said.
Duterte is set to name local officials involved in the illegal drugs trade.
Police confirmed killing more than 100 people.
Duterte won the May 9 election by landslide largely on a pledge to kill tens of thousands of narcotics suspects and other criminals, and has urged the police and civilians to help in the killings.
Police said that they had killed 103 drug suspects who resisted arrest, but insisted they had operated within the boundaries of the law.
Among the dead was a policeman found tied to a post Thursday with a cardboard sign hanging from his chest that accused him of being a “police drug pusher”. A photo of the victim was published on the paper’s front page on Friday.
Police in nearby Bulacan province said he had been under surveillance on suspicion of ties with drug gangs.
Duterte, who during the election campaign said 100,000 people would die in his war on crime, on Thursday threatened an alleged drug dealer with death if he returned to the Philippines.
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