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Mike Navallo

21 Jan, 9 tweets, 2 min read

JUST IN: Ofc of Prosecutor General dismisses complaint vs Sen. Koko Pimentel for violating RA 11332 or the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases over his visit to MakatiMed despite having undergone COVID19 testing.

Prosecutor General says Senator Pimentel is not a public health authority nor required to report medical condition for him to fall under RA 11332.

DOJ previously cited RA 11332 to justify arrests of those who violate quarantine protocols.

Prosecutor General also says complaint filed by Atty Rico Quicho was fatally defective as he was not proper party to file case and relied on hearsay (news reports.)

Prosecution Attorney Honey Delgado, spokesperson of the Ofc of Prosecutor General, reveals the NBI submitted a report to the DOJ recommending dismissal of complaint vs Pimentel.

“Bulag pipi at bingi ang DOJ,” complainant Dean Rico Quicho says in reaction to report of DOJ’s dismissal of quarantine breach complaint vs Pimentel.

https://twitter.com/ancalerts/status/1352122176908902403

FULL STORY

https://twitter.com/ancalerts/status/1352122176908902403

In a statement, Pimentel says DOJ ruling is “unassailable and correct.” Says he was accused of violating a non-penal DOH issuance he had no knowledge about and complainant was nowhere near place of incident.

But RA 11332 imposes both fines and jailtime.

DOJ ruling junking quarantine breach complaint vs Pimentel announced a day after his birthday.

In a longer statement, complainant Atty Rico Quicho asks: "Is there a different set of rules for Mr. Koko Pimentel, the powerful and the privileged, and a different set for the fish vendor, the weak, the forgotten and the 'unimportant'?"

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