“The government must immediately cease promoting a discriminatory, stigmatizing and skewed approach to solving the drug problem. This on top of their bloodied credentials and their present fixation to intrude in campus affairs,” Spark spokesperson Shara Mae Landicho said.
Instead, University of the Philippines-Diliman University Student Council chair Sean Thakur urged government to resort to other means of eradicating the drug menace, noting that the Oplan Tokhang, PNP’s nationwide anti-drug program, was unsuccessful. “Three years has passed since Oplan Tokhang was unleashed and no less than the President has already admited that their approach have failed to curb the drug menace and now they seek to spread the bloody frenzy within academic institutions,” Thakur said.
“Policymakers and the police are looking at the opposite direction. They shall find more success if they genuinely address social, structural injustices and quit being utak-pulbura ,” he added.After news broke out about the mandatory drug testing, several PUP students stepped out of their classrooms and held protests against the policy. Some also speculated that this may be in line with talks to revive Republic Act 1700 or the Anti-Subversion Act, which may be used to target student activists.
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