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Solons puzzled by Duterte’s ‘inconsistencies’
By Nidz Godino
“I myself have actually been puzzled by his inconsistencies… I can’t explain why … he’s like that…we should probably have in-depth assessment and evaluation of context of his replies,” overall quad chairman Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said members of quad committee of House of Representatives have noted several inconsistent or contradictory statements made by former president Rodrigo Duterte when he faced panel last Nov. 13.
“It’s very difficult to determine whether he is joking, serious and truthful or just being witty and humorous… very difficult to read,” Barbers stressed.
Among most notable self-contradictions Duterte made were his challenge to International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate him the soonest, but pushed this back by saying he will not yield to any foreign agent or judge, preferring to be judged by Filipino jurists and incarcerated domestically.
Another was Duterte’s supposed straightforward vow to sign any and all bank waivers with regard to his alleged P2.4 billion bank accounts, as exposed by his critic, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, only to backtrack later by invoking conjugal nature of his financial transactions
There was also excuse or alibi that Duterte has “no money” being elderly retiree, to the point where he asked lawmakers to fund his travel to The Hague where ICC is headquartered, but yet offered initial P1-million seed money for his cops facing criminal and administrative suits on alleged extrajudicial killings or EJKs.
Representatives Zia Alonto Adiong of first district of Lanao del Sur and Gerville Luistro of Batangas’ second district made similar observations, particularly on former president’s flip-flopping stand on absolute bank waiver he promised to execute regarding his accounts.
“Is it now understanding of committee that when the former president was asked by chairman Romeo Acop, that the President be willing to sign any waiver, would that be safe to assume, Mr. Chair, that that would be ‘conditional,’” Adiong clarified.
House assistant majority leader wanted to be doubly accurate he heard it right when the former Davao City mayor assured his colleague, quad comm senior vice chairman Acop, that he will sign absolute bank waiver at first instance, without any conditions.
According to Adiong, he made this assumption on the basis that “when the former president right away answered question of Acop, I presume that it was actually in the affirmative and it was actually in all candidness and all honesty.”
Luistro , lawyer by profession likewise noticed “inconsistencies” in the testimony of the former Davao City mayor, who, unfortunately, is also member of Bar, and was a prosecutor for nine years in his province.
“The president made his testimonies inconsistent… I don’t know why,” she said .
Initially, Duterte was very straightforward in his statements. “I’ll sign waiver tomorrow Nov. 14,” he originally offered.
When Adiong first mentioned word “waiver” in his interpellation, he replied: “waiver…yes, right away.”
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