President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday slammed Senator Richard Gordon for criticizing his decision to appoint former military officials in his government.
"Do not be too presumptuous about your talent. Why do you criticize me? It’s my prerogative. It is not prohibited by law," the President said in a speech at the 28th founding anniversary of the Bureau of Fire Protection in Pasay City.
"I'm challenging him, give me one specific instance that the military or the police or the DILG [Department of the Interior and Local Government] membership or group of entities, bureaus under it disobeyed a single order galing sa akin.”