00:00Unsurprisingly, former President Rodrigo Duterte opted to ditch the House Quad Committee invitation
00:06to attend its 10th hearing yesterday for apparent reasons.
00:09Still, it was a lengthy session that dragged on to the wee hours to the next morning and
00:15featured the panel's endorsement of a task force appointed by the DOJ to formally probe
00:20the illegal drugs war and the thousands of extrajudicial killings in the previous administration.
00:26Our Melanies Moras has more.
00:31The House Quad Committee fully supports the task force established by the Department of
00:36Justice to probe the alleged extrajudicial killings during former President Rodrigo Duterte's
00:41administration.
00:42According to Quadcom Lead Chair Robert Ace Barbers, they have already met with the task
00:47force and they vowed to provide all possible support in the name of truth and justice.
00:53All of their needs in the build-up of the case, up to the preliminary investigation
01:04of the witnesses, they can do that through the Quadcom and we will actually give them
01:10full access here because that is what is right.
01:15At the 10th hearing of the Quad Committee yesterday, which lasted until early morning
01:20The relatives of alleged EJK victims were among those who appeared before the panel.
01:25To this day, they remain emotional when discussing their loved ones who they say were killed
01:30without a fight.
01:49Issues related to illegal drugs were also scrutinized and businesswoman Rose Nonolin,
02:07the wife of alleged drug lord Alan Lim, appeared for the first time.
02:11During the interpolation, however, several congressmen criticized Lin as she often could
02:15not answer questions about her husband.
02:35All these issues are being linked to former President Duterte, but he did not attend the
02:39hearing again to explain his side.
02:41In an interview, Duterte even criticized the Quad Committee, saying they were making
02:45all sorts of accusations against him.
02:48But the Quad Committee is determined to invite his camp again, even if just his lawyer.
03:10Meanwhile in a statement, House Secretary General Reginald Velasco confirmed that former
03:15PCSO General Manager Royina Garma and former NAPOCOM Commissioner Edilberto Leonardo have
03:20already been released from the custodial center of the lower house.
03:25Melalez Moras from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines.
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