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Cagayan de Oro 1st district Rep. Lordan Suan has categorized as "fake news" the notion on social media that everybody from Mindanao is automatically against the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte.

This sweeping argument was raised during a press conference with Suan and his fellow impeachment prosecutors on Tuesday, May 19. (via Ellson Quismorio | MB)

READ: https://mb.com.ph/2026/05/20/suan-its-fake-news-to-say-all-mindanaoans-oppose-vp-duterte-impeachment


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Transcript
00:00Good afternoon, Honorable Prosecution Panel. First of all, to Prosec, Lordan Suwon, sir.
00:05Prosec, you're one of the new faces of the Prosecution Panel.
00:10Paano po kayo nag-prepare? Paano niyo po pinagandaan yung deision ninyo?
00:14Given yung mga tanong na rin ng aking co-reporters, the political climate and atmosphere of this topic has been
00:20highly tensioned.
00:21But you are from Mindanao and you decided to be a prosecutor. How did you prepare for this decision, sir?
00:28Yes, I am a Mindanaan from Cagayan de Oro and my being a Mindanaan is precisely the reason why I
00:36take this duty very seriously.
00:41Because we're not just talking about other people's money, we're also talking about the taxpayers that Mindanaans are paying.
00:50And I believe that no region, whether it is Luzon, Visayas, or Mindanao, no family, no official should be elevated
01:00above the Constitution or even above the investigations of the COA.
01:06And we are not here to go against or to move against or for any person. We are here for
01:16the process.
01:17And if nothing wrong was done, then the process itself will show it.
01:24And I think that's what we owe to every Filipino, including Mindanaans.
01:33Hello, Apo. Thank you.
01:35As Proseka Lores Defensor said, malaking kalaban ninyo yung fake news.
01:39Sa social media ngayon, ang pinaiikot na naratibo ng ilang mga trolls ay parang pulo-pulo yung nagiging laban.
01:45Parang Mindanaan does take a stand behind BP Sara Duterte and as if yung laban is not about accountability but
01:53versusan ng mga pulo.
01:54As a Mindanaan, sir, would you like to debunk that, yung narrative na panaiikot na paggaling sa Mindanao, automatic, anti
02:01-impeachment?
02:03Kaya nga yung pinamalaking kalaban natin dito sa buong impeachment process ay yung fake news talaga.
02:11Because we are talking about accountability here and accountability does not respect regional bias.
02:19So, dapat yung totoo ang manaig and hopefully everyone can come together and, you know, decide whether what we are
02:29sharing is really news or fake news.
02:33Yung pinakauna dyan, check natin yung source ng sinishare natin kung troll account ba yan or kung totoong media outlet.
02:42So, I think we should go back to the concern of the prosecutors that one of our biggest enemies here
02:49is fake news.
02:51Thank you, President.
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