When we talk about Dutertes we say they are “full of drama”. This year saw that peak drama with Vice President Sara Duterte and her father, former President Rodrigo, grabbing headlines.
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On the heels of impeachment filing against Vice President Sara Duterte and the quad-comm House hearings on the war on drugs and POGO, an ethics complaint was filed against a House member who played a key role in the hearings, ACT Teachers Representative France Castro.
It is inevitable that Vice President Sara Duterte faces an impeachment complaint. The handwriting was on the wall, or rather on the acknowledgment receipts on her confidential funds disbursement which was found to be fraudulent with non-existent people and faked signatures.
A veteran human rights lawyer from Surigao del Sur was among the three lawyers honored recently by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) for its first Human Rights Awards.
The issues on Vice President Sara Duterte in the past two weeks have flooded headlines and social media, from the impeachment complaints over the confidential funds and her outburst threatening President Bongbong Marcos and his family.
Imagine yourself having P460 Million every year as Confidential/Intelligence Funds as ruler of a regional cosmopolitan city…you have a personal war chest or kitty to govern by DOLEOUTS.
The children of the journalists slain in the Ampatuan massacre in 2009 grew up without knowing their parents who perished in the most journalist murder 15 years ago, as they battled their own struggles being raised by a single parent.
Duterte raised this dare at the start of the November 13 House quad committee hearing on extrajudicial killings and human rights violations committed under his presidency and his mayoral terms in Davao City.
The Altermidya Network reiterates the call to dismiss the charges against our colleague Frenchie Mae Cumpio and the rest of ‘Tacloban 5’ as the community journalist took the stand for the first time in almost five years on Nov. 11.
Christopher Ryan Maboloc, a philosophy professor of Ateneo de Davao University, and author of “Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte”, posted this reaction last October 29 about the Senate blue ribbon sub-committee hearing: “Senator Risa Hontiveros achieved nothing yesterday.”
