Kerwin Espinosa, the man accused by the Duterte government of being a drug lord, says Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa forced him to testify against former Senator Leila de Lima.
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00:00Kerwin Espinoza, the man accused by the Duterte government of being a drug lord, says Senator
00:06Ronald Bato Dela Rosa forced him to testify against former Senator Laila de Lima.
00:11Espinoza gave the testimony at the hearing of the House Quad Committee probing the Duterte
00:15administration's drug war.
00:17Espinoza says Dela Rosa gave him the order during a car ride when he arrived in Manila
00:21in November 2016.
00:22Espinoza says Dela Rosa threatened him he would end up like his father, Albueralete
00:46Mayor Rolando Espinoza, who was killed in an alleged gunfight in jail.
00:51He claims Dela Rosa said, quote, higher-ups knew about the order, and he understood it
00:56to mean then-President Rodrigo Duterte.