00:00Investigation of the Senate Blue Ribbon Subcommittee as well as the campaign against illegal drugs.
00:05On Monday, former President Rodrigo Duterte was invited by the committee.
00:11Daniel Manalasta will return to the center of the news.
00:16Senate President Francis Escodero also denied the Senate's fair listening,
00:21as well as the war on drugs that will start next week.
00:24Of course, because of the former president,
00:26I expect that the members of the Senate will give him a warm welcome.
00:32Senate Minority Leader Cojo Pimentel was assigned
00:35to lead the hearing under the Senate Blue Ribbon Subcommittee.
00:39And if he agrees, they will just follow the evidence and their aim.
00:44The instructions of the subcommittee,
00:47conduct hearings to investigate the Philippine war on illegal drugs.
00:53So, since this is the Blue Ribbon, what does that mean?
00:56We will see if someone misbehaved.
00:59I am literally being instructed by the mother committee
01:03to investigate the Philippine war on illegal drugs.
01:08So, we can even go beyond the Duterte administration time.
01:13But let's not go earlier because otherwise we will never end.
01:19The committee formally invited former President Rodrigo Duterte.
01:23But Duterte was not the first person to be invited,
01:26even though he was already there.
01:28The senator told me that he was willing to attend.
01:31I said, okay, if he's willing to attend,
01:34if there is no invitation, I will invite him.
01:36He will react to the accusations against him.
01:43He will react.
01:44We will hear first the issues against the war on drugs.
01:51Because the only reason why we are having a hearing
01:54is because there must be some issues.
01:57Among the invited, aside from the former president,
02:00are retired police colonel Ruyina Garma,
02:03former senator Laila Delima,
02:05Kerwin Espinosa,
02:06families of the victims of the drug war,
02:09and others who are invited to speak.
02:11And in the middle of the call to Senator Ronald De La Rosa
02:14to take an indefinite leave
02:16while the Senate investigation is being conducted
02:19that he will not do it.
02:21Daniel Manalastas for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
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