House Committee on Good Gov’t and Public Accountability orders arrest of 4 OVP officials for failure to attend hearings

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00:00Four officials from the office of the Vice President have been ordered to be taken into custody for the deliberate intent

00:05in a repeated and concerted effort to ditch the invites and skip the hearings.

00:10Armando Las Muertas has more on the latest move by the House Committee on Good Governance and Public Accountability

00:16to deal with the apparent shenanigans of OVP officials to evade the hearings

00:21and the uninvited OVP official who showed up today but was eventually shown the door.

00:28The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability has ordered the arrest of four officials from the office of the Vice President

00:38due to their repeated failure to attend the panel hearing on the alleged phone misuse issue at the OVP.

00:44Among those cited in contempt are OVP Assistant Chief of Staff and Bids and Awards Committee Chair Limuel Ortono,

00:51Special Disbursing Officer Gina Acosta, and former Dept. and Official Sunshine Fajarda and Edward Fajarda,

00:58who both have transferred to the OVP.

01:00To explain, they all submitted letters and travel orders but the lawmakers did not buy it.

01:06It's a bit surprising because they both left.

01:11They both have travel orders.

01:13They both were forced to leave on the day of the hearings.

01:19Now, it makes me think that there's actually a malicious intent behind all these reasons and travel orders given to them

01:31just so that they can again avoid attending today's hearing, Mr. Chair.

01:37Vice President Sara Duterte's Chief of Staff, Undersecretary Zuleika Lopez, was also unable to attend.

01:43However, due to valid reasons, she was granted another opportunity to appear in the next hearing.

01:49While five officials were absent, four OVP officials attended the hearing,

01:54namely Chief Accountant Julieta Villa del Rey, Administrative and Financial Services Director Rosalyn Sanchez,

02:00Budget Division Chief Edeline Rabago, and Chief Administrative Officer Kelvin Tenido.

02:06Another OVP official, Attorney Emily Torrentira, unexpectedly showed up, although she was not invited.

02:12She also refused to take the honesty oath, so she was eventually asked to leave.

02:17Number one, she was not invited to attend today's hearing.

02:22Number two, she did not take her oath.

02:30So we don't even know the personalities and the circumstances to why she is here.

02:36And no communication was forwarded to the committee as to her attendance.

02:42For all we know, she can be somebody posing for somebody,

02:47and the committee cannot act on mere presentation without proper representation.

02:54During the discussion, several congressmen once again raised questions about the OVP's usage of confidential funds in 2022.

03:02But the OVP officials in attendance claimed not to have extensive and in-depth information on the matter.

03:08Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the House Squad Committee will continue its separate investigation

03:12into the previous administration's war on illegal drugs,

03:16and the House Solons are keeping their fingers crossed former President Rodrigo Duterte will appear.

03:22Personally, his statements in our Senate hearing left us with more questions than answers.

03:28So we're really hoping that he would attend.

03:30Melales Moras from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines.

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