00:00The House Squad Committee dismissed two personalities in their 13 public hearings,
00:05including the former PDEA chief Wilkins Villanueva.
00:09But instead of arresting him,
00:11the Church Of Christ of Latter-day Saints ordered his detention in January.
00:15Mel Alesmora has the details.
00:20Do I hear any objections?
00:23Hearing none, the motion is approved.
00:26The House Squad Committee dismissed the former PDEA chief Wilkins Villanueva
00:31for his alleged misconduct and avoidance of questions.
00:35In the 13th public hearing of the Joint Panel,
00:37Quadcom Co-Chair Stephen Paduano
00:40dismissed Villanueva for his alleged warrantless arrest and interrogation of PDL Jed Pilapilsi.
00:48Jed is the husband of a drug suspect, Allan C.,
00:51who was arrested in Davao City in 2005.
00:56Paduano was outraged when Villanueva said that he has nothing to do with this.
01:02You're not respecting this committee's question of command and responsibility.
01:06Are you not lying?
01:08No, Mr. Chair.
01:09Also, Mr. Chairman, with that, I move to cite in contempt General Wilkins.
01:15I have already given you the answer.
01:20Usually, the arrest and detention order is followed by contempt,
01:24but in the Christmas season, the committee will implement the order.
01:29May I move that the serving of the penalty of contempt will be served
01:35when we come back after the holiday season in January.
01:39So move, Mr. Chair.
01:40I believe in the spirit of Christmas and I'm not even a Christian.
01:45So, in the spirit of your forgiveness, the season of forgiveness,
01:49I would go with the motion of General Apop.
01:53Before that, the first one to be contempted by the Quadcom was Police Colonel Hector Grijaldo
01:58for repeatedly not attending the hearings.
02:01Grijaldo accused some of the Quadcom leaders
02:04of forcing him to sign the reward system under the Duterte drug war.
02:09The Joint Panel denied that.
02:11I think we've given him, what's his name, Colonel Hector Grijaldo enough leeway.
02:18We've been so kind to him and I think it's the right time to make an appropriate motion.
02:25If there are those who were contempted,
02:27there are also some personalities who were released from the contempt order of the Quadcom,
02:32including the former Bamban Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo,
02:35Cassandra Ong, Tony Yang, and Police Major Leo Larraga.
02:39On August 1, the Quadcom's hearings started
02:43and before the year ended, the Joint Panel submitted their findings to the UNPAC.
02:48We have decided to make the prohibition of this kind of killing separate
02:55or what we now call extrajudicial killings.
02:58From the pecking birth certificates we obtained,
03:02we immediately decided to give the power to the government agencies
03:08to cancel the fictitious and late registered birth certificates.
03:14Next week, the Quadcom is expected to present their progress report to the plenary of the Camera.
03:20Mela Lesmoras for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
