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- ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro tells Vice President Sara Duterte to address the persisting issues on the P125-million confidential funds spent by her office as well as the “learning crisis” instead of telling House members what to do with rresolutions concerning the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) probe on the war on illegal drugs.
Vice President Sara Duterte (Photo courtesy of OVP)
After Vice President Sara Duterte told House members what they shouldn’t do, ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro told the Vice President what she thought she should do.
This as Castro, the House deputy minority leader, went off on the Vice President during a virtual press conference Friday, Nov. 24.
“Kung gusto talaga ni Vice President Duterte, ang dapat gawin niya asikasuhin na lang niya ang kaniyang trabaho. Ipaliwanag niya itong P125 million na confidential funds na ginastos niya for 11 days,” a visibly irked Castro said.
(If Vice President Duterte really wants to, she should just mind her own job. She should explain the P125-million confidential funds that she spent in 11 days.)
There’s also the “learning crisis” among Filipino youth that Vice President Duterte must address, according to the Makabayan lawmaker.
The former is the concurrent Department of Education (DepEd) secretary.
“Yung kaniyang trabaho sa DepEd, para maka-alpas tayo sa learning crisis natin sa mga kabataan. Kaya yun dapat ang kaniyang gampanan, at huwag niyang diktahan ang mga miyembro ng House of Representatives,” added Castro, who is a former teacher.
(How about her job at DepEd, so that our youth may be able to get past this learning crisis. That’s what she should be doing, and not dictate what the House of Representatives members should do.)
On Thursday, Vice President Duterte reminded the House of President Marcos’ opposition to the conduct of an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation in the country.
“To allow ICC prosecutors to investigate alleged crimes that are now under the exclusive jurisdiction of our prosecutors and our courts is not only patently unconstitutional but effectively belittles and degrades our legal institutions,” she said.
The Vice President had this to say after the House began deliberations last Wednesday on resolutions that sought to get the Philippine government’s support for the ICC probe.
ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had previously announced that she would start a preliminary examination against former president Rodrigo Duterte–the Vice President’s father–in connection with complaints on his war on illegal drugs. — Ellson Quismorio
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