Vice President Sara Duterte said Friday she will not attend the November 20 House good government and public accountability panel inquiry on the budget use of her office and the Department of Education (DepEd) during her stint.
Duterte said it was a waste of her time and she will instead submit an affidavit to explain herself.
“Inimbita nila ako noong una, pumunta ako, umupo ako roon. Hindi naman nila ako tinanong. Nakaupo lang ako, nasasayang ang oras ko. Kaya nagpaalam ako kung pwede ako umalis at pinayagan naman nila ako,” she said.
(They already invited me during the first hearing and I went there. I was sitting and they did not ask me questions. I was just sitting and my time was being wasted. So I asked permission to leave and they allowed me to leave.)
“So hindi ko alam kung bakit inimbita nila ako [on November 20], hindi naman nila ako binigyan ng mga tanong. Pero, hindi ako a-attend sa hearings nilang susunod. Kasi nandun na ako eh, pumunta ako pero wala naman silang ginawa sa akin, pinaupo lang ako,” she added.
(I don’t understand why they will invite me on November 20, and they did not even gave me questions to answer. So. I will not attend their next hearings because I already did that and I was just there, sitting.)
The Vice President was referring to her attendance at the House panel inquiry where she refused to take her oath prior to giving her testimony.
With the Vice President refusing to take her oath, the House panel members proceeded to field questions to other resource persons present who took their oath.
The invitation for the November 20 inquiry was served Wednesday to the Vice President when she showed up during the House QuadComm probe on drug war killings during the administration of her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.
She arrived at the House QuadComm probe by the time her father was already answering questions from lawmakers for about five hours.
The House good government and public accountability panel earlier cited four Office of the Vice President officials in contempt over failure to show up in the congressional inquiry. The contempt order on other OVP personnel have been lifted as they already attended the hearing.
The House panel probe earlier revealed the receipts on the use of confidential funds under the younger Duterte’s watch had wrong dates, unnamed signatories, among other inconsistencies.—AOL, GMA Integrated News
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