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(File photo) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's administration is making significant strides in its relentless campaign against illegal drugs, Malacanang said Thursday. Acting Presidential spokesperson and Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said the anti-narcotics drive led to the seizure of multi billion-peso worth of illegal drugs and the dismantling of drug dens and clandestine shabu laboratories. "The Palace, thus, maintains that the Duterte Administration's campaign against illegal drugs remains unprecedented as it is able to produce significant accomplishments in the number of drugs seized, dens and clandestine laboratories dismantled as well as drug-cleared barangays (villages)," Andanar said in a press statement. He issued the statement, a day after Duterte admitted that he was "wrong" when he promised to end the drug problem in three to six months in office. In a speech delivered in Cordova, Cebu, Duterte urged drug smugglers to "dro