Meet a government mascot unlike any other mascot we’ve had before.
Amid reports of minors getting involved in the illegal drug trade, the Philippine National Police (PNP) Police Community Relations Group (PCRG) will be going around schools with a puppet named “Tatay Digong.”
“The puppet is made in the likeness of President Rodrigo Duterte and is even wearing a checkered shirt,” pointed out Julliane Love De Jesus on Inquirer.net.
In a Mon, Jul 18, interview at Camp Crame in Quezon City, PCRG director Senior Supt. Gilbert Cruz explained: “Sa school, meron kaming hinandang puppet shows, kung saan ang bida namin dito ay si Tatay Digong… nagsasalita doon, and then si General Bato (Dela Rosa) and yung mga adik. [Then] ‘yung bata, si Miguel na kinukumbinsi ng mga adik na sumama sa kanila. So ‘yun ang mga magiging takbo ng mga istorya.”
(“In schools, we prepared puppet shows where the protagonist is Duterte… speaking there, and we also have General Dela Rosa and drug addicts. Then, a child character called Miguel is being convinced by drug addicts to join them. That’s how the story will go.”)
