Balitanghali: (Part 2) October 29, 2024

GMA Integrated News

-Tricycle, nahulog sa gilid ng kalsada; driver na lasing umano, sugatan       -FPRRD, sinabing mayroon siyang "death squad"/FPRRD, iginiit na wala siyang utos sa mga pulis na patayin ang mga sangkot sa illegal drugs/FPRRD, hindi raw hihingi ng tawad sa mga kaanak ng mga nasawi sa War on Drugs/Dating Mandaluyong Police Chief Grijaldo, inutusan daw ng House Quad Comm na kumpirmahin ang umano'y rewards system; Rep. Fernandez at Abante, itinanggi ito/Alyas Muking, itinangging siya ang naglalabas ng pondo para sa umano'y pabuya sa Drug War       Balitanghali is the daily noontime newscast of GTV anchored by Raffy Tima and Connie Sison. It airs Mondays to Fridays at 11:00 AM (PHL Time). For more videos from Balitanghali, visit http://www.gmanews.tv/balitanghali.  #GMAIntegratedNews #GMANetwork #KapusoStream  Breaking news and stories from the Philippines and abroad: GMA Integrated News Portal: http://www.gmanews.tv Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gmanews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gmanews Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gmanews Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/gmanews  GMA Network Kapuso programs on GMA Pinoy TV: https://gmapinoytv.com/subscribe

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00:00While a tricycle was in the middle of the National Highway in Tulunan, Cotabato, it slowly slid to the coast.

00:09The tricycle fell to the side of the road and spun.

00:13Motorists helped the tricycle driver.

00:16According to the barangay captain, La Esperanza, the tricycle driver suffered minor injuries.

00:21He was either drunk or drunk at that time.

00:24He has no explanation.

00:27In the face of former President Rodrigo Duterte in the Senate hearing on the drug war,

00:32he admitted that he has a death squad.

00:34But he did not order the police to kill those involved in illegal drugs.

00:38Here is my report.

00:43I have a death squad, but not the police.

00:51They are also the gangsters.

00:54I ordered one gangster to be killed.

00:58If you don't kill him, I will kill you now.

01:02This is the confession of former President Rodrigo Duterte about the Davao Death Squad

01:06when he faced the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee investigating his war against drugs.

01:11You mentioned that you have your own hit squad.

01:15Is that what you're trying to tell us so we won't get confused?

01:19I mean, can we be very clear?

01:22It's not a hit squad.

01:24This is a direct statement.

01:28It's not a hit squad.

01:31As long as the people in Davao know that I'm there,

01:35and you commit a heinous crime,

01:39and no one can go to the aggravated person,

01:46that's me.

01:47Is there a reward for those 7 people who were killed?

01:51No, ma'am.

01:52The rich people in Davao have a lot of money.

01:57What is the connection between the rich people in Davao and the members of the Death Squad?

02:02Because they want their city to be safe.

02:05Because they want business to thrive.

02:09Duterte is very envious.

02:10As the President, he did not order the police to kill those involved in drugs.

02:14Call of duty of the President.

02:18That's me.

02:19Because I was the President at the time.

02:23And I did not call, Mr. Senator.

02:30I warned all Filipinos.

02:36If you are involved in drugs,

02:40let it go. Drop it.

02:44Because we will have problems.

02:47There were killings,

02:49but it was not state-sponsored killings.

02:55But Duterte said, he ordered the police to kill the criminals involved in the fight.

03:00He also instructed the former police generals who came as part of the Death Squad.

03:05All of these on my right side,

03:10were led by the Chief of Police, the Police Director.

03:19All of them were commanders of the Death Squad.

03:24Senator de la Rosa,

03:27that's the Death Squad.

03:31Because they were police directors

03:34handling the controlling crimes in the city.

03:43So when you say Death Squad,

03:47it's a very loose term.

03:49I mind very much me being associated with the DDS

03:53because during that time when I was the City Director of Davao,

03:57it was really a problem for us,

03:59especially the unsolved killings.

04:02I think he's just joking, sir.

04:04There's nothing to say that you killed him.

04:08So it's just a matter of taking things on your hand.

04:12We know how President Duterte tells stories.

04:16When he said that Bato de la Rosa is a Death Squad,

04:23I was 100% sure that he was joking.

04:26In fact, he replied afterwards,

04:29he said that the police are not on his side.

04:32You said that you encouraged the PNP

04:36to encourage the suspect to fight

04:39so that he can be killed, so that he can say, fight.

04:42Correct.

04:43Correct.

04:44This is very incorrect.

04:46Correct. Yes.

04:48If I go back, sir, I will do it again.

04:52Double.

04:54Duterte was also in front of the hearing.

04:56Former Senator Laila Drima,

04:58one of the five children of those who died under the Duterte drug war.

05:01Duterte said that he will not apologize

05:04even though he promises responsibility for the campaign.

05:07Do not question my policies

05:11because I offer no apologies,

05:16no excuses.

05:19I did what I had to do.

05:23And whether you believe it or not,

05:26I did it for my country,

05:31for all of its successes and shortcomings.

05:37I, and I alone,

05:41take full legal responsibility.

05:46I will be held accountable.

05:48And I will be jailed.

05:50I will be jailed.

05:51Do not follow my orders.

05:54It is a pity.

05:55I am just working.

05:58He was inducing,

06:01encouraging the killings.

06:04And it cannot just be purely rhetoric

06:08because he followed what he said.

06:13He followed what he said that those should be killed.

06:18Whether they fight or not.

06:20I think that's too much to say that everyone fought.

06:25We don't even have the death penalty.

06:28There is no honor in punishment like tokhang.

06:32It should not be an honor to be called the punisher

06:36when thousands of innocent people,

06:39including babies, have died in your name.

06:43The war on drugs will never be glorified by the Filipinos.

07:06My brother, the President, was assassinated.

07:09Where did it happen?

07:11We haven't gotten justice yet.

07:16We won the RTC.

07:19There is a DANYOS case.

07:20We haven't gotten justice yet.

07:22The discussion was heated by the direct question of the former President

07:25if he accepts the full responsibility for the death of Kian

07:28and some other people who were killed in the war on drugs.

07:31The police took full responsibility.

07:34Yes, and what about the result of the police

07:36that thousands of people were killed,

07:38including Kian De Los Santos?

07:39Do you also take full responsibility for that, Mr. Chair?

07:43No.

07:45How about Carl Anthony Nunez?

07:49Before you ramble on those many things.

07:51No, no, no. I'm not rambling, Mr. Chair.

07:53My questions are very specific.

07:55No, the law is specific.

07:56Guilt is personal.

08:00Ask the lawyer first.

08:01It's okay. I can ask the lawyer.

08:04Go ahead.

08:05Ask him first before we proceed.

08:07No, no, no.

08:08I already prepared these questions with my legislative staff.

08:11Guilt is personal.

08:12Yes, it's very personal.

08:14You can't pass that to others.

08:16No, no, no. This is not passing.

08:18Blue Ribbon is investigating the war on drugs

08:21and the result of extrajudicial killings there.

08:24Now, let me ask you about Carl Anthony Nunez.

08:27Do you take responsibility for his death?

08:30You didn't get the policy of the President.

08:34I got it. I'm also a policymaker.

08:36I was talking about the policy.

08:38I take full responsibility for what I said about the war on drugs.

08:44You said, sir, you can hold me responsible for any death.

08:48But if you get involved in a specific crime,

08:50Yes, sir. You spoke about specific crimes.

08:53And if I say I will take full responsibility,

08:57when we go to court, they won't accept that.

09:02Well, Mr. Chair, and if the resource person could keep his volume

09:06and pitch to a normal level.

09:09Mr. Chair, you are pinned down by your own statements of October.

09:15No, no, no, Mr. Chair.

09:17I'm not trying to pin you down on air.

09:21Mr. Chair, do not pin me down on semantics.

09:26Retired Col. Ruina Garma, who has a good reward system for the police,

09:30was also praised for carrying out the drug war.

09:33I will answer you this.

09:35Why should I pay them? That's their job.

09:38Former Mandaluyong Police Chief, Col. Hector Grijaldo, also agreed to the hearing.

09:42He said, he was ordered by the House Squad Committee to confirm the so-called reward system.

09:47If Dan Fernandez put the paper he was holding on the table and told me,

09:54this is what you will say in this statement.

09:57This is the supplemental statement of Col. Garma.

10:01Tell me that you know the reward system.

10:05Just confirm it.

10:08They want to lie to me, Your Honor.

10:12Congressman Dan Fernandez and Benny Abante could deny this.

10:17Fernandez called the statement of Grijaldo a lie.

10:20According to Fernandez, Grijaldo was called because according to Garma,

10:24he can support his statement about the reward system.

10:27But Grijaldo did not force him to say that he does not know about this.

10:31Abante said that he did not force him to sign any affidavit in exchange for the possibility of promotion.

10:37In the Senate hearing, Ermina Espino alias Mooking also denied the allegation of Garma

10:43that when Espino was the Assistant Secretary of the Presidential Management Staff,

10:46she was the one who issued the fund for Pabuya.

10:49Some former PNP chiefs in the Duterte administration, including Senator Bato de la Rosa,

10:54were denied the briefing between them and former Col. Edelberto Leonardo

10:59about the drug situation of the country before they became chiefs of police.

11:03Rafi Tima reporting for GMA Integrated News.

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