00:00Graft and corruption and betrayal of public trust are the possible grounds of a committee in the House of Representatives
00:05to file an impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:10But for now, they will clarify, the Vice President has a chance to explain.
00:16Melanies Moras is back.
00:20The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability has already discussed
00:25the two grounds that can be used to file an impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:32According to Committee Chair Joel Chua,
00:34that is graft and corruption and betrayal of public trust
00:37because of the wrong use of confidential funds of the Office of the Vice President
00:43becoming the Department of Education when it was led by VP Sara.
00:48First, the issue in the safe houses, which amounted to P16 million.
00:57These prices are very high and they cannot explain it.
01:01The second issue that we see here is in the DepEd.
01:08The certification initiated by the Army
01:13apparently to justify their use of a worth more than P15 million confidential fund.
01:19But unfortunately, it was denied by the Army
01:23that there was downloaded money from them for the purpose of Youth Leadership Summit.
01:30Chua's gait from the start was just to hope that in the creation of new laws
01:34on the correct use of government funds,
01:37they will listen.
01:39But in the course of their investigation,
01:41they found that the possible impeachment complaint is valid.
01:45Although for now, the Vice President still has a chance to explain about this.
01:50That is if he will face it and his allies in the next hearing.
01:55If they will not face it, along with his staff in the OVP,
02:04we will discuss with the committee what will be our next move.
02:11In a statement, House Senior Deputy Speaker Aurelio Don Gonzales, Jr. said
02:16that the House Panel on the Plunder Case against the Vice President
02:20may also recommend because of the alleged anomalies in his use of the funds.
02:26But Chua clarified that impeachment should come first.
02:31As I see it now, we cannot file a plunder against the VP
02:40because he is the sitting Vice President.
02:43So the impeachment should come first.
02:48So after the impeachment, once proven or impeached,
02:53that's the time for cases to be filed against the Vice President.
02:59Manila's 6th District Representative Bienvenido Avanti, Jr.,
03:03who is the senior vice chair of the committee,
03:06did not agree with what Chairman Chua said.
03:08Although when it comes to the possibility of impeachment,
03:11it needs to be investigated first.
03:15Next week, the Congress will hold a re-hearing
03:19and the hearings here in the Chamber are expected to be held again.
03:22Mela Las Moras for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
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