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Manila Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr. on Monday challenged Senator Ronald Dela Rosa to attend the House quad-committee investigation and explain his role in the alleged extrajudicial killings linked to the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.
Dela Rosa, who served as former President Rodrigo Duterte’s first police chief and architect of the controversial anti-drug campaign that claimed thousands of lives, mostly among the urban poor, dismissed the ongoing inquiries as “paulit-ulit” or repetitive, and described them as a “fishing expedition.”
“Kahit na before the quad-committee was formed, the Committee on Human Rights extended an invitation to the good senator so he could be able to air his side. He has yet to accept any of the invitations extended to him, although it appears that he has a lot of thoughts on the matter,” Abante pointed out.“If he has something to say, don’t say it to the media, say it to the quad-comm so that his answers are really clear.
Responding to Dela Rosa’s claim that the investigations are repetitive, Abante argued that the hearings have uncovered new and significant information.
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