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(Eagle News) — It was “presumably” President Rodrigo Duterte himself who ordered Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno not to appear before a House hearing on budget issues, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. In a press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 17, Panelo said it was only the President, after all, who could tell Diokno whether to make the appearance or not in the hearing slated on Jan. 3 next year in Naga. “The basis would be the […]
(Eagle News) – A day after filing an ethics complaint with the Senate against Senator Leila De Lima, House leaders today filed a criminal complaint against her with the Department of Justice for snubbing the House inquiry on the illegal drug trade and for instructing her driver-bodyguard to hide and do the same. The House leaders who filed the criminal complaint were House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, House Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Farinas and House […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima had admitted to texting the daughter of her former bodyguard and lover, Ronnie Dayan, not to attend the hearing at the House inquiry on the illegal drug trade at the national penitentiary last October. But the senator qualified that this was not “obstruction of justice,” but “obstruction of persecution.” “They’re imputing disrespect on my part. Aren’t they the ones disrespecting me all this time? So what do […]
(Eagle News) — The House Committee on Justice recommended the grant of immunity to Ronnie Dayan as it started its inquiry on Thursday morning (November 24) into the alleged proliferation of illegal drugs at the New Bilibid prisons. With no member of the House objecting, House committee chair Rep. Rey Umali said they would forward their motion to grant immunity to Dayan, a former bodyguard-driver and lover of Senator Leila de Lima, to House […]
(Eagle News)– Because of his delicate health condition, convicted kidnapper and high-profile inmate Jaybee Sebastian failed to attend the resumption of hearings at the House of Representatives on Thursday morning (October 6) regarding the illegal drug anomalies at the national penitentiary. At the start of the hearings in Congress, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said that Sebastian was supposed to appear that morning but that the recommendation of the medical doctor attending to him was […]
