Chief of staff ni VP Sara Duterte na si Atty. Zuleika Lopez, idedetene sa Kamara matapos ma-cite in contempt | Saksi - video Dailymotion

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00:00Two officials of the Office of the Vice President are being contempted for listening to the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability

00:08which is advocating the use of OVP in the use of confidential funds.

00:12One of them will be detained in the camera and the other one in Bicutan, Taguig.

00:16Again, the unquestionably wrong acknowledgment receipts were revealed.

00:20Witness, Marisol Abdurrahman.

00:22On the left side, with black ink, that's from the OVP.

00:48On the left side, with black ink, that's from the OVP.

00:52On the other side, it's from DepEd.

00:56Can you please read the name on DepEd?

00:59It's the same, Mr. Chair.

01:01It's the same, right?

01:02Yes, Mr. Chair.

01:03It's very obvious, Mr. Chair, that not only Mary Grace Piatos,

01:07what we have seen is questionable.

01:10We also see that there are acknowledgment receipts, Mr. Chair,

01:15that have the same name,

01:17that the date is different,

01:19that their signature is different, Mr. Chair.

01:24The judges also analyzed how the former DepEd Special Disbursing Officer,

01:30Edward Fajarda, was able to disperse in many places in the country

01:33within one day on February 21, 2023.

01:37According to Congressman Royce Gutierrez,

01:39on February 21, 2023,

01:41one day after Fajarda was able to cash in P37.5 million,

01:46there were acknowledgment receipts

01:48that Fajarda was able to disperse in seven different places in the country.

01:52From Malolos, Davao, San Francisco, Agustin del Sur, Makati City,

01:56Negros Oriental, Negros Occidental, and Davao City.

01:59In passing, he cashed in,

02:01and immediately the next day, he traveled to these seven places

02:05and had these seven ARs.

02:07Did this not raise a red flag of the impossibility of this occurring?

02:11Well, it does, sir.

02:13And according to Congressman Royce Gutierrez,

02:15on March 15, Fajarda's disbursements reached 26

02:20in different places in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

02:23Attorney Camora, let's give him a helicopter.

02:25I don't think he'll do that in one day.

02:29So it really raises a question.

02:31How did SDO Fajardo certify and say that he personally disbursed this?

02:36Camora wants to verify with the Philippine Statistic Authority

02:40if there are real people who signed the ARs.

02:43He will also refer them to the NBI and PNP to verify the signatures.

02:47Fajarda will tell the OVP officials that he did not hide his disbursement today

02:52despite the sight and contempt of the committee.

02:55Former Deputy Assistant Secretary Sunshine Chary Fajarda,

02:59OVP Special Disbursing Officer Gina Acosta,

03:02and Assistant Chief of Staff and Visa and Awards Committee Chair Lemuel Ortonio.

03:07Ortonio was again contempted by the committee

03:10and was ordered to be imprisoned in Bicutan for 10 days.

03:13Ortonio wrote that he was going to a hearing

03:16and asked to remove the contempt order against him, but he did not come.

03:24Vice President Sara Duterte did not hide his disbursement today.

03:28She said that she was just wasting her time

03:31because she did not ask why she came here.

03:34The vice president said that she did not misuse her confidential fund.

03:39This is also what the vice president said in her letter to the committee.

03:42But the committee said that they did not ask the vice president why she came here

03:46because she was not under oath.

03:48They also invited the vice president several times.

03:51The one who came to the hearing earlier,

03:53Chief of Staff of VP Sara is Ertina Zulaica Lopez.

03:57I am purely handling, as I mentioned, operational concerns.

04:02Although I would wish to answer really respectfully

04:05as regards the matter of the confidential expenses,

04:08it is something that I have not really been privy to from the very beginning.

04:14In the hearing, Lopez wrote to the Commission and Audit

04:18to tell them not to follow the order of the camera

04:21that is being submitted by the audit report about the confidential funds of the OVP.

04:26She said that Vice President Sara Duterte knows about this.

04:29That letter does not in any way seek to undermine the power of Congress.

04:35It is simply a request to the Commission of Audit

04:39given that there is still an ongoing audit investigation.

04:44That's why we requested that since the audit is not yet completed,

04:51it is not right to give such documents first.

04:57But Attorney Lopez, that is not a call for you to make, right?

05:03Precisely because you are the agency that is being investigated.

05:07You're asking another agency not to cooperate with Congress

05:12when an ongoing investigation is happening.

05:20I truly apologize if there was something in that letter

05:24that slighted you on a personal note.

05:27It was not my intention, Your Honor.

05:29And I would like to request to the members of the Honorable Committee

05:33to lift that contempt order or to reconsider

05:39and grant my request, Your Honor, not to cite me in contempt.

05:43We will have the next meeting on November 25, Mr. Chair.

05:47So I move until November 25.

05:51Which is on Monday.

05:54May we request the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrange a room

06:02here in the vicinity of the House of Representatives.

06:06At the press conference earlier,

06:08D.T. Sara looked to comment,

06:10cognizant of the acknowledgment receipts that were being questioned in the camera.

06:13According to D.C., he has not seen the said receipts

06:17because the litigation documents did not pass through him.

06:21He also said that the Vice-Committee will not provide an additional answer.

06:24It is up to the Congressmen to decide what to do.

06:27He also said that he did not stop the employees of the OVP

06:30from participating in the hearings.

06:32They said it was insufficient and they did not accept it.

06:34So I did not answer.

06:35I did not even try to make an affidavit.

06:39So they were just defeated by their antibiotics.

06:41They were just defeated by their kill.

06:43They were just defeated by their antibiotics.

06:47Will you attend the next hearing?

06:53Well, it remains to be seen, sir.

06:56In the current case-to-case basis,

06:58it depends on what is the proper invitation.

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