“Here’s a woman who funded a house of a lover and yet we don’t see any complaint about it”, the President said.
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“Namumulitika (politicking), posturing when you yourself have a very sordid personal and official life”.
During her watch as chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights, she initiated a probe into Duterte’s involvement with the DDS, which she said has carried out at least 1,000 summary executions in Davao.
“But by the looks of it, she has it (money)”, Duterte said, but did not elaborate.
“I will show to you”.
President Rodrigo Duterte hit back at a lady senator who criticized his campaign against illegal drugs amid the rising number of extrajudicial killings and alleged human rights violations. Duterte was mayor of Davao City for over two decades and is credited for turning a once lawless city into a model for peace and order. Before entering the hotel lobby she said I will prove that Duterte is connected with the DDS – Davao death squad.
It’s a human rights disaster unfolding in real time and another indication that Duterte is a singularly unique-and some may say threatening – individual in global affairs. Duterte has vowed to crack the whip on corruption and crime involving drugs, saying many Filipinos are now into drugs.
Senator Leila de Lima slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for resorting to “foul character assassination” after the President called her “immoral” and “adulterer” Wednesday, August 17. I would like her to eat it in my presence. Bakit, akala niya wala ako? “Until now she keeps on yakking and has forgotten the tape which I have recorded”, he said. “The fight against drugs will continue unrelenting until we have destroyed the apparatus operating in the entire country”. Why, does she think I don’t have anything on her?
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The President initially said, the person’s boyfriend had supposedly received drug money on her behalf during the campaign, but he did not say where these funds came from.
