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00:00The credibility of the Senate's investigation into the war on drugs by the Duterte administration is in question.
00:07The committee that will lead this is led by Senator Ronald Bato de la Rosa, who became the PNP chief of Duterte.
00:14Dela Rosa explained this in the first news of Ma'am Gonzalez.
00:23Senator Bato de la Rosa and Bong Go are with us.
00:25In the released diagram of retired police colonel Roina Garma,
00:29about the early reward system in the drug war during the Duterte administration,
00:33when the drug war was implemented,
00:35Go served as the aide of former President Rodrigo Duterte,
00:38and Dela Rosa was the chief of the PNP.
00:40They both denied the involvement of Garma.
00:44But after Garma's statements in the hearing of the House Quad Committee,
00:48Dela Rosa will close her own investigation into the drug war
00:52in her capacity as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs,
00:57together with the former boss of Duterte.
01:01It's a big possibility that she will attend if we invite her.
01:06She looks more comfortable here in the Senate than in the lower house.
01:12Whatever issues were raised against Senator Bong Go,
01:16against me, or whoever else was accused of not wanting to attend,
01:22she can attend here in the Senate hearing.
01:25But the co-chair of the House Quad Committee, who is investigating war on drugs, is suspicious.
01:30The thing is, he became the director general of the Philippine National Police
01:36during the time of the former president.
01:40Just imagine, he was only a brigadier general,
01:43all of a sudden, he became a star.
01:47He became a major general and a director general.
01:52So I would think that he would be more biased than actually balanced in that hearing.
02:01If I really want to join the committee, I've been hearing for a long time.
02:05But I'm ashamed because people might say that I'm self-serving.
02:12I'm ashamed.
02:15But if we really need to mint the checks and balances, then we have to do it.
02:24Go said that he will hold a resolution tomorrow to investigate war on drugs in the Senate.
02:30There will be an investigation in the Senate.
02:32If you want to investigate war on drugs, we can listen to it.
02:36Especially that our chairperson, Senator Bato, is the chairperson of the Committee on Peace and Order,
02:44and he is the chief PNP.
02:46So we can know what is really true and what is the reason for this.
02:52The lawyer of the victims of extrajudicial killings accused him of this.
02:57Perpetrators or those who are guilty cannot investigate themselves.
03:03The Quadcom is also the target to find out if the money given to each victim under the drug war came from the government's funds.
03:11For the money trail to be clear, the committee is now working with the Commission on Audit and Anti-Money Laundering Council.
03:18Solicitor General Menardo Guevara said that there are people who heard about the reward system
03:24when he served as a secretary of the Justice Department.
03:26But there is no witness.
03:28Even in the investigation of the Commission on Human Rights back then, the reward system is just for show.
03:33There are rumors about it, but there is no actual witness who came forward to say that there is such a system initiated by people above.
03:49That's why we can say that there is a scheme.
03:52In the next hearings of the Quadcom, is there a credible witness to detail where the funds came from?
03:58As of now, honestly, there is none.
04:01But we believe that there is one.
04:04There is one who will come forward.
04:08In the Senate of Garma in the Quadcom, Duterte asked for a recommendation
04:12on who will be able to implement the reward system for war on drugs throughout the country.
04:16But the overall chairman of the Quadcom said that they cannot say that the former President of the Philippines has a direct connection to the death.
04:23We are not saying that now because we don't have evidence.
04:27We still don't have a corroborative statement.
