'Paalala lang po, virus ang kalaban natin, hindi taumbayan. Punitive and militarized responses to a public health pandemic will serve no purpose but to further punish the already suffering,' Hontiveros said.
Senator Risa Hontiveros has called for a legislative investigation into a Quezon City official’s threat tolockdown violators, and of other abuses by local officials when enforcing community quarantine.
In the document, the opposition senator named Ranulfo “Rannie” Ludovica, head of Quezon City’s Task Force Disiplina, for his August 3 social media post that carried the threat,Hontiveros noted that Task Force Disiplina had already figured in a controversy before, when it was caught on camera beating and manhandling a fish vendor for failing to wear a face mask outdoors.
In a separate statement, Hontiveros, a Quezon City resident, said Ludovica’s threat was “disturbing, counterproductive, and illegal.”? Our people are already suffering, and statements like that do not inspire confidence in our local leaders,” she said.. Punitive and militarized responses to a public health pandemic will serve no purpose but to further punish the already suffering," Hontiveros added.
Ludovica drew flak on social media when he posted the “shoot-to-kill” threat on his Facebook page at around 3 pm on Monday, August 3, a day before Metro Manila and its surrounding provinces reverted to MECQ. He took down the post about 3 hours later.
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