Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla said Wednesday that he would ask Vice Mayor Jeryll Harold Respicio of Reina Mercedes, Isabela to undergo a drug test.
This move comes following an outburst by the local official during a Sangguniang Bayan session.
‘I’ll have him undergo a drug test first. He seems out of his mind. That’s all,’ said Remulla during an ambush interview.’I advise that we give him a drug test because his behavior looks like that of an addict,’ the secretary observed.
‘Is there any normal vice mayor who acts like that? He seems out of his mind, as if he wasn’t elected,’ Remulla said.
‘There was an abuse against a person in authority when he shouted at the police officer, who was just standing there,’ he noticed.
‘But we are still investigating, and I am leaving it to Gov. (Rodolfo) Albano to handle it. Not me for now,’ the secretary added.