00:00Mr. Senate President, Mr. Presiding Officer, Honorable Senator Judges,
00:07mga kababayan, magandang umaga po.
00:10Sa ating pagbabudget para sa pamilya, dahil hindi naman only ang pera,
00:17masinop ang ating paggasta sa talagang kailangan at kapakipaginabang natin nilalaan.
00:24Ganyan din dapat sa pondo ng bayan.
00:27Sa yugtong ito ng paglilitis, pag-uusapan natin ang confidential funds.
00:33Ito ang budget para sa mga sensitibo at surveillance-related activities upang suportahan ang mandato ng mga civilian agencies.
00:42That a budget is intended for confidential operations does not mean that the conduct of the officials involved in the
00:49handling of people's money
00:50is exempted from the demands of transparency, scrutiny, and accountability.
00:58Public office is a public trust.
01:01Yan ang sabi ng konstitusyon.
01:03Sakop nito ang lahat na nasa gobyerno.
01:06At ang utos na yan ay hindi pwedeng balawalain dahil confidential lang o confidential ang pondo.
01:15Ang confidentiality ay para protektahan ang lehitimong operasyon at informant.
01:21Hindi ito pahintulot para mag-imvento ng pangalan at dokumento.
01:26Hindi ito palusot para ibulsa ang pera.
01:29Kung confidential ang pondo, lalo pang ang mataas ang pananagutang kaagibat nito.
01:37The Constitution entrusts this court with a solemn duty to determine whether the respondent vice president committed culpable violation of
01:45the Constitution,
01:46graft and corruption, and betrayal of public trust.
01:50The evidence will show that she did.
01:53This case, Article 1, is about $612.5 million in confidential funds entrusted to VP Sara Duterte through the Office
02:04of the President and the Department of Education.
02:07This is not about one missing receipt.
02:09This is not about a clerical error or accounting mistake.
02:13The evidence will reveal a pattern, a systemic course of conduct that, taken as a whole, demonstrates graft and corruption.
02:21and betrayal of public trust.
02:24With the permission of the Honorable Dilema, yes, Counsel for Respondent.
02:31Again, Your Honours, I think we have to object to the statements being made by the Honorable Dilema, with all
02:37due respect, of course.
02:38Your Honours, they can do that through the offer of their evidence, Your Honour.
02:42Chair will instruct the Honorable Dilema to kindly limit her statements.
02:46I was listening intently in the beginning.
02:48It was okay, Honorable Dilema, but later on, you did make conclusions of law already, which are the chair orders
02:54to be stricken from the record.
02:56You may wind up, Honorable Dilema, but kindly avoid conclusions of fact and law.
03:01Your Honours, please.
03:02If I may just be given just a few seconds.
03:05Your Honours, ang naging problema natin nung huling pagkakataon na pinayagan natin yung ganitong statement, at nasabi na nga ng
03:12presiding officer, is kahit naman i-strike off the record natin.
03:16Eh narinig na po, at nasabi na.
03:17So, to allow, Your Honours, again, a continuation of such, is really goes into the matter of fair play, Your
03:26Honour.
03:29Honorable Dilema, kindly wind up.
03:31Again, you were forewarned beforehand to kindly limit your statements, hence you are faced again with a similar situation.
03:37Kindly wind up, Honorable Dilema, and call your witness.
03:39Ang dami pong malalampasan sa aking opening statement, because it is supposed to be an overview of the case, the
03:48overview of the evidence.
03:50To let the witness speak, not the counsels, insofar as the evidence is concerned, or conclusions of both fact and
03:56law.
03:56Kindly wind up, Honorable Dilema.
04:00I submit, Your Honour, and so I will wind up.
04:21When the Filipino people entrusted their money to Vice President Sara Duterte, was that trust honored?
04:29That question will not be answered by politics, by general denials, by press releases.
04:37It will be answered by the witnesses, by the documents, by audit, and by the evidence, and the prosecution is
04:44ready to present it.
04:46Sa kapuuan ng ebidensya, makita ang hindi lang mga simpleng irregularidadan nangyari.
04:51Objection, Your Honour.
04:52Again, objection, Your Honour.
04:53Again, objection, Your Honour.
04:54An systematikong para, Honour, this is out of time.
04:55I would have to stop you at this point.
04:57The continuing objection of the respondent is duly noted.
05:00I would have to stop you at this point.
05:02And I have to stop now.
05:03My due apologies, but kindly call your witness already.
05:06Thank you, Your Honour.
05:07I submit.
05:07Thank you very much.
