"Blue Ribbon Committee hearing" being led by someone who is facing recommended plunder and indirect bribery charges.
Only in the senate of the Philippines.
Text from Avelino v. Cuenco, 83 Phil. 17 (1949), which the new Senate leadership relies on for the position that their 12 Senators are sufficient to constitute a quorum.
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Senators were seen crying yesterday as a colleague was being arrested for plunder.
This is in no way an indictment of the accused senator but I would like to remind our lawmakers…
Iyakan n’yo ang ninanakawang Pilipino.
Iyakan n’yo ang binabaha dahil sa nakawan sa flood control.
Iyakan n’yo ang gutom nating mga kababayan.
Get out of your bubble. Please.
In a condescending tone, a colleague, who is a lawyer took issue with Sen Hontiveros’ lack of “legal background”. I have a simple message — it’s the RULES stupid!
“I am a kakampink but I stand with PRRD…”
What is up with all these new narratives? Kailangan ba simulan na kakampink muna, para may credibility yung statement? 🤔
Pwede namang derechohin na “I’m a proud DDS and I stand with a murderer! 👊”
Yung nararamdaman ni Honeylet at ni Kitty? Wala 'yan sa kalingkingan ng hinagpis na naramdaman ng mga asawa na namatayan ng bana, ng mga anak na nawalan ng ama o ina, ng mga nanay na pinatay ang mga anak. 🔽
How ironic that the strongman who built a legacy on bypassing due process now wants it for himself – a right that Duterte denied from the thousands brutally slain in his bloody drug war.
Hiniling ni Rep. Drixie Cardema sa pagdinig ng House Quad Committee na magkaroon ng patas na proseso at isama ang mga biktima ng mga durugista sa pagdinig.
Nagbigay din ng pahayag si Cardema tungkol sa mga kongresistang umano'y ikinabit niya sa grupong NPA.
Bilang tugon, sinabi ni Rep. Romeo Acop, “Kung gusto niya magpa-imbestiga, mag-file siya ng resolution… I beg to disagree na sila lang ang nakikipag-laban at marunong makipaglaban sa kalaban.”
Dagdag pa ni Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, “Mag-attend kayo ng hearing, hindi yung a-attend kayo kapag nandito lang ang dating pangulo at ating bise presidente… this Quad Comm makes announcements of all its hearings.”
"Nakakaputangina."
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