00:00The seven officials of the Office of the Vice President were placed in the Immigration Lookout Bulletin Order.
00:07They include the Chief of Staff of the OVP, who is already abroad and has travel documents approved by Vice President Sara Duterte
00:17according to her office in Katutok, Tina Panganibang-Perez.
00:21The chairperson of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability has doubts
00:30that someone is stopping the officials of the Office of the Vice President
00:34who is facing an investigation by the committee regarding the expenses of confidential and intelligence funds
00:40received by Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:43The Chief of Staff of the Vice President, Zulika Lopez, was supposed to be here,
00:49but she flew to America on the eve of the committee hearing yesterday.
00:53The committee chair, Jowel Chua, said that they are aware that Vice President Duterte
00:58signed the travel authority of the Chief of Staff of the Office of the Vice President.
01:02It is saddening that the OVP officials are stopping the officials.
01:07This is also the view of other congressmen.
01:10There is a bad fate for some reasons.
01:13First, they were invited several times.
01:17Second, there is a bad fate because she left the country the night before the scheduled hearing.
01:25The Chief of Staff has the obligation to explain the irregularities, the concerns, and the issues.
01:32If you are not hiding anything, why are you avoiding it?
01:35In a statement, the OVP confirmed that Lopez traveled to America and approved a visa.
01:44This is a personal trip and has no connection to his work.
01:49The OVP also requested that Lopez and his family keep their privacy
01:54when they are going through a difficult time.
01:57Lopez was with the seven OVP officials
02:00given by the Department of Justice by the Immigration Lookout Bulletin Order.
02:05The camera requested this because of the several times the seven of them snubbed
02:09the invitations to attend the hearings.
02:12I would like to reiterate that this ILBO is not a restriction to their travel or their right to travel
02:18but merely a monitoring mechanism by which we can see if they left the country or entered the country.
02:24Some congressmen are also concerned about Vice President Sara Duterte's refusal to hear the camera.
02:32It does not set a good precedent for all resource persons that will attend in the future hearings.
02:38Even former President Aquino attended the Senate hearing and took his oath.
02:45President Duterte attended the Senate hearing and took his oath.
02:49It's premature to even say that this leads to the impeachment.
02:54We have yet really to find out what really happened as far as the utilization of these funds.
03:01We are listening to the reaction of Vice President Duterte.
03:06For the GMA Integrated News, Tina Panganiban Perez, for Tutok, 24 hours.
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