Vice President Sara Duterte will not appear before the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Friday to explain her remark that she ordered someone to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. if an assassination plot against her succeeds.
“Hindi po siya makakarating (She will not able to come) today,” Atty. Paul Lim, Duterte’s legal counsel, said in a video by GMA Integrated News’ Ian Cruz.
Lim declined to elaborate when asked on why the Vice President could not attend the day’s investigation.
The NBI issued a subpoena to Duterte to allow her to explain her alleged kill order against the President, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, and Speaker Martin Romualdez if she dies.
She is being investigated for alleged grave threats in relation to the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 and possible violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. She had earlier contended that her remarks against the First Couple and Romualdez were “maliciously taken out of logical context.”
Duterte previously said she will ask the NBI to reschedule her summon as she will prioritize her attendance at the House good government panel’s inquiry into the budget use of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education when it was still under her.
The House committee, however, postponed its hearing scheduled on Friday morning to give way to the NBI probe. —KBK, GMA Integrated News
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