Duterte: Hindi po ako naniniwala na wala akong magawa, may magawa ako. With the cabinet members, we can come up with a strong stand vs corruption. Eradication may be a part of that. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte: This is my 2nd call for a fight vs corruption. Yung task force nabuo ko, puro abogado yun... This time, to focus corruption on DPWH. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte: Let me state that I have nothing vs Sec. Villar, he has many accomplishments. But accomplishments alone will not suffice. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte: The Office of the President will be involved in eradication vs corruption. In the next few days, may suspend pa ako mga empleyado. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte: Ang mata ko hindi na masyado maganda... I read 168, may point pala iyon... nagkamali ako sa contaminated (ng drugs)... | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte: One of my proposals during the campaign period is the creation of overseas Filipinos... I will also create another agency for maritime or sea farers because of so many international laws involved here. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte directs Sec. Bello to look into matter: Bring them home, no Filipino should be left stranded like a person with no nationality. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte: Yan ang ano ko sa mga kababayan kong naghihirap sa labas, that there will be review...for your protection. I have to create this ASAP. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte: On All Saints/All Souls’ Day, no liquor and no guns. We expect a peaceful celebration of All Saints and All Souls’ Day. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte on vaccines: Let me tell everybody, hindi kami maghingi. We will pay. Maganda sana gov't to gov't transaction. Walang corruption. I am offering China, kasi meron na sila. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte addresses Sec. Duque: I just want a clear picture of how we should go about, my sense it should be a government to government transactions. Ayoko yung private persons, magbili tayo sa private, partnerships. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte asks Sec. Galvez re procurement processes. It has been my desire, kasi busy si Sec. Duque, it’s my decision na tungkol sa pera, ibigay sa TF. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte to officials: Huwag niyo na pagawin ng proposal, madaliin agad hindi na proposal kundi yung pera. God damn it, give it kasi kakainin yan, yung assistance... Do away with the delay. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte says he has never signed any contract with government. Transactions begins and ends with Sec. Galvez. Health transactions begins and ends with Sec. Duque. But mind you, Sec. Duque is not involved in Philhealth. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte issues memorandum to Sec. Guevarra: The DOJ is directed to investigate allegations of corruption in the entire government. Lahat! | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte: The power and authority of DOJ to investigate shall not in any way diminish with this directive... this is effective until 2022, pag alis ko. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Duterte: Ang mahirap nyan, mga anak mo, ang pamilya mo mapahiya... Yang Philhealth wala na, skeletal na lang yan. Hindi ko bubuwagin yan. Again, do not try to resign to escape accountability. | via @xtinamen
@xtinamen Proposed quarantine classification, subject to appeal sa LGUs: GCQ in NCR, Batangas, Iligan, Lanao del Sur... Gusto ng karamihan cause they have seen the results. | via @xtinamen
CONTEXT: In 2007, Malacañang suspended for six months a regional director of the Department of Education for her failure to submit a true and complete SALN.
Failure to file a SALN is punishable by either suspension or dismissal.
CONTEXT: While Duterte has not made public his SALN for three years now, former Chief Justice Renato Corona was impeached in 2011 for violation of the Constitution when he failed to disclose his SALN to the public.
HAPPENING NOW: The committees on public accounts and good government and public accountability continue hearing on alleged PhilHealth anomalies.
They are expected to approve today the committee report on the congressional probe. | @XaveGregorio
@XaveGregorio Rep. Jose Antonio Sy-Alvarado on today's proceedings: Isang araw ng mga pasabog ang mangyayari. | via @XaveGregorio
Rep. Michael Defensor says some of the recommended cases to be filed against allegedly erring officials are administrative charges, violations of the Revised Penal Code, graft and corruption, syndicated estafa and plunder. | via @XaveGregorio
President Rodrigo Duterte, who promised to end corruption in the country as early as 2016, said he will dedicate his last years in office to fighting corruption because it keeps getting stronger.
In February this year, Duterte admitted that he cannot stop corruption.
CONTEXT: In his campaign period and during his first year in office, Duterte claimed he will get rid of “corruption, criminality, and drugs” in three to six months, and told Filipinos to kill him if he doesn’t.
"He better file a case in court or shut up if he has no evidence to show," House Minority Leader Joseph Paduano (Abang Lingkod party-list) says of Lt. Gen. Parlade's repeated accusations against members of the Makabayan bloc. | via @XaveGregorio
"We all know that intelligence information gathering is part of military duty, but we cannot allow Parlade to sow fear or even threaten people he merely suspects to have communist links," Paduano also says in a statement.
Paduano says "he expects the entire House to take action on the issue."
JUST IN: DFA Sec. Teddy Locsin says the Philippine Ambassador to Brazil has been recalled to explain supposed maltreatment of her service staff. | via @patriciaviray
@patriciaviray DFA: The Department of Foreign Affairs has instructed the Philippine Ambassador to Brazil to return home immediately following release of video footages showing her berating and mistreating her household staff. | via @patriciaviray
DFA: The household staff left Brasilia on October 21 and is back in the Philippines. The DFA is reaching out to her to ensure her wellbeing and cooperation in the investigation. | via @patriciaviray