Sa kaniya namang pagdalo sa pagdinig ng House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability ngayong araw, kinuwestiyon ni Vice President Sara Duterte ang pagpapalawig sa contempt order laban sa kaniyang chief of staff.
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00:00In his response to the hearing of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability today,
00:06Vice President Sara Duterte asked for an extension of the contempt order against her Chief of Staff,
00:12who is appointed by Jonathan Andal.
00:14Yes ma'am, because we have nothing to do with this, ma'am.
00:20One minute to just declare your position.
00:22Well, point of order.
00:24The hearing of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability has just begun.
00:28Vice President Sara Duterte and ACT-Teachers Partylist Representative Franz Castro are raising their voices.
00:35When the hearing was suspended for a moment,
00:37the Vice President was allowed to stand and the congressmen led by the Committee were allowed to go.
00:44The Vice President was questioned as to why the Office of the Vice President or OVP Staff
00:51that was questioned by the Committee earlier.
00:53How can you ask a resource person without giving him copies?
00:57Without giving him copies?
00:59Mr. Chair, point of order.
01:00The four OVP staff who just arrived and were arrested by the Committee
01:06because of the number of times they did not attend the hearings.
01:09But they were not with his Chief of Staff, Atty. Zulaika Lopez,
01:13who is at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center
01:16because he is suffering from an acute stress disorder
01:19based on the Certificate of Confinement he gave to the Committee
01:22from the doctors and an excuse letter.
01:25But it was approved by a congressman.
01:27His doctors are not saying here that he is not physically incapable of attending today's hearing.
01:39I just find it a little bit odd, Mr. Chair,
01:43that it was not mentioned here that because of his condition, he will not be able to attend.
01:51Because Lopez did not attend today and because of what happened this weekend,
01:55the Committee decided to add five more days for the contempt order to Lopez
02:00that should be completed today.
02:02I move, Mr. Chair, that the period of detention of Atty. Lopez be ten days instead of five days
02:11because he will not be able to attend today.
02:14We saw in the history of his evasive attitude, behavior,
02:24and his creation that he is lying,
02:27that he was not harassed or barged into his room,
02:34all of that is included.
02:37The congressmen who are allies of the doctors tried to counter this.
02:41Even the Vice-Chairman questioned the extension of the contempt order of Lopez.
02:45But the Chairman of the Committee did not agree to speak to the Vice-Chairman
02:49if he will not admit that he will tell the truth.
02:53I will only recognize you if you will take your oath.
02:57Okay. Let's do this.
02:59The point of the Vice-Chairman is, why will Lopez be punished for telling the truth to four defendant officials
03:05when the President is receiving resignations from Assistant Secretaries and Undersecretaries
03:10as well as the Appointing Authority?
03:12I asked you earlier, who is the Appointing Authority?
03:15Yousef of ASEC, what is your answer?
03:18Secretary. You don't know.
03:20I haven't answered yet.
03:23I saw you. Answer.
03:25Camera.
03:27I saw you. Answer.
03:29You said Secretary.
03:31You don't know everything.
03:33The one who is on fire is the President.
03:35At that time, the tension grew and the Vice-Chairman asked to reconsider
03:39the extension of the contempt order of Lopez.
03:42You need to reconsider that extension of your detention.
03:45It was illegal in the first place.
03:47You asked the President why he accepted the resignation.
03:52Do not ask due process.
03:54If you have any question insofar as the actions of this committee are concerned,
04:00I think the proper remedy is for you to go to the court.
04:04Sure. I will go to court.
04:07But every day, you are depriving a person of her liberty while I await.
04:15That is precisely the point, ma'am.
04:18If our action of detaining your Chief of Staff is against the law,
04:23I think the proper remedy, and I think you are a lawyer,
04:27the proper remedy is to go to the court.
04:29Sir, do you really want to show the Filipino people what you know about the law?
04:35That is the decision of the committee as a whole.
04:38I hope you will respect it.
04:41I am just helping you, sir, because the Filipinas are embarrassed.
04:44Is this how the House of Representatives works?
04:47For GMA Integrated News, Jonathan Andal, for 24 Hours.