00:00The Senate President himself believes that it is not a good idea if Senator Bato de la Rosa,
00:06who is involved in the Duterte Drug War, will lead the Senate's investigation on this matter.
00:11If only one senator can do it, the entire Senate will be involved in the investigation.
00:16Ma'am Gonzales has the final say.
00:21Senator Ronald Bato de la Rosa's plan to lead an investigation on the war on drugs of the Duterte administration
00:28was first advocated by some families of victims of extrajudicial killings, even by some lawmakers.
00:35Now, even Senate President Chase Escudero said that it is not a good idea.
00:40He said that it suits him to bring it to the Senator.
00:43I told him that whatever investigation he wants and about himself and Senator Goh,
00:49it would be better if they are not the first ones to commit it.
00:52So that there is no allegation that this is personal and not impartial and not fair.
00:58Bato was the PNP chief of the former President Duterte when the war on drugs was first implemented.
01:03According to the official account of the government,
01:05more than 6,000 people were killed in anti-drug operations during that time.
01:10But the war on drugs wants to be re-examined after the former police officer Rojina Garma
01:15revealed that there was a reward system back then where the police were given a reward
01:20depending on the size of the killed drug suspect.
01:22Senator Goh, who was the Special Assistant to the President back then,
01:25was given a reward because he was the one who issued the funds for the investigation.
01:30He was also reported to him if there was a drug suspect who was killed.
01:34Both Goh and De La Rosa denied that there was a reward system back then.
01:38Senator Riza Ontiveros suggested that the Committee of the Whole or all senators should listen to this.
01:44If this is the case, the victims of the war on drugs will be more alert and more likely to join the hearing.
01:51The Committee of the Whole is an option,
01:53but Escudero is also looking for another committee that can handle the investigation.
01:58According to Escudero, it is up to De La Rosa to talk about this in the text message.
02:03Aside from the committee of Senator Bato,
02:06of course, he has the right and he is part of the discussion and discussion of that matter.
02:11But I will formalize this for the next few days.
02:14We will see each other this weekend when I return.
02:17We also interviewed De La Rosa about this.
02:20For GMA Integrated News, Mav Gonzales speaking for 24 Hours.
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