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00:00The contempt order against the Chief of Staff of Vice President Sara Duterte,
00:05Atty. Zulaika Lopez, was added five days ago,
00:07and she did not attend the hearing today.
00:10The Vice President violated the contempt order
00:13in the manner of questioning several congressmen from her staff.
00:17Witness, Jonathan Andar.
00:19Do you certify to the correctness of the liquidation reports
00:28on the use of the debt and confidential funds?
00:31Mr. Chair, we don't have a partner here.
00:33We don't have a point of order for us.
00:36How can you ask a resource person without giving him copies?
00:41Mr. Chair, point of order, Mr. Chair.
00:43Madam Vice President, please wait to be recognized.
00:46Give him copies.
00:48Vice President Sara Duterte violated the contempt order
00:50while congressmen were questioning her former special disbursing officer
00:54in the DepEd, Edward Fajarda.
00:57The gate of the Vice President, why didn't the staff of the Office of the Vice President
01:00immediately give copies of the documents?
01:02At this point, Vice President Duterte and Congresswoman Franz Castro also responded.
01:07Representative Ahop is asking our resource person,
01:11why is it that the Vice President is batting?
01:15Yes ma'am.
01:16We don't have a point of order here, ma'am.
01:19We don't have a point of order.
01:21Well, point of order...
01:23When the interrogation was suspended,
01:25the visit was suspended and the congressmen went.
01:31The four OVP staff were in the interrogation earlier
01:34and were first contempted and arrested by the committee
01:36because they didn't attend the hearing several times.
01:39But the chief of staff of the vice president,
01:41Atty. Zulaica Lopez, who is still in the Veterans Memorial Medical Center,
01:45said in Lopez's excuse letter that he couldn't attend because of acute stress disorder.
01:49What his doctor is not saying here is that he is not physically incapable of attending today's hearing.
02:00I just find it a little bit odd, Mr. Chair,
02:05that it was not mentioned here that because of his condition, he couldn't attend.
02:14Because Lopez didn't attend today,
02:16and because of what happened this weekend,
02:18the committee decided to add five more days for the contempt order to Lopez
02:23that should be completed today.
02:25I move, Mr. Chair, that the period of detention of Atty. Lopez be 10 days instead of 5 days.
02:35Because he can't attend now.
02:38We saw in the history of his evasive attitude, behavior,
02:47and what he created that he lied that he wasn't harassed or barged in.
02:56The room is already included.
02:59So all of the things that happened, Mr. Chair.
03:02The extension of the contempt order was requested by the congressmen who are allies of the Duterte,
03:07as well as by the Vice President.
03:09The point of the Vice President, why is it that Lopez will be punished
03:11for inciting the four DepEd officials,
03:14while the President is receiving resignations from the Assistant Secretary and Undersecretary,
03:19as well as the Appointing Authority?
03:21Madam Vice President,
03:22I asked you earlier.
03:23I'm sorry, sir.
03:24I asked you earlier, who is the Appointing Authority?
03:28Usec of ASEC.
03:29What is your answer?
03:30Secretary.
03:31You don't know.
03:32I haven't answered yet.
03:33I saw you.
03:34Answer.
03:36Camera.
03:38I saw you.
03:39Answer.
03:40You said Secretary.
03:41You don't know everything.
03:43The one who is appointing is the President.
03:45One minute suspension is declared by the Chair.
03:48At that time, the tension escalated and the Vice President asked to reconsider the extension of the contempt order to Lopez.
03:54You need to reconsider that extension of your detention.
03:57It was illegal in the first place.
04:00You asked the President why he accepted the resignation.
04:05Do not ask due process.
04:08If you have any question,
04:09insofar as the actions of this committee are concerned,
04:13I think the proper remedy is for you to go to the court.
04:18Sure.
04:19I will go to court.
04:20Yes.
04:21But every day, you are depriving a person of her liberty,
04:27while I await.
04:29That is precisely the point, ma'am.
04:31If our action of detaining your chief of staff is against the law,
04:36I think the proper remedy,
04:38and I think you are a lawyer.
04:40Yes, sir.
04:41The proper remedy is to go to the court.
04:43Sir, do you really want to show the Filipino people what you know about the law?
04:48That is the decision of the committee as a whole.
04:51I am just helping you, sir, because the Filipinas are embarrassed.
04:54Is this how the House of Representatives works?
04:58On Saturday, Lopez was emotional
05:01as she was shown how the camera men took her to her detention room this Friday night.
05:08This is not just harassment.
05:12This is being a threat to my life.
05:19They gang up on you in the middle of the night?
05:23Lopez was to be transferred to the Women's Correctional Facility
05:26in Mandaluyong, next to the committee.
05:28They bring 10 people to serve you in the middle of the night,
05:33and they just badger and go to your room, and then demand you to go with them.
05:37And their light is already closed.
05:39Like this, dark.
05:41And then, they, like that, like that on your door.
05:45Like, and then this entered.
05:49At first, Lopez was rushed to the hospital
05:51after her feelings were hurt.
05:53She vomited, vomited, vomited, and then collapsed.
05:57Duterte also complained that the ambulance that would take Lopez to the hospital
06:00did not immediately let her in.
06:02And while Lopez was taking her to her stretcher,
06:05she was screaming.
06:06Ma'am, someone stole your cell phone.
06:08Give it back.
06:10According to Lopez in her online briefing,
06:12those who went to her room demanded to get her cell phone.
06:16I believe that it was an attempted homicide
06:19because she feared for her life.
06:22Why do you have to antagonize a detainee
06:27who is fully cooperating
06:32with everything that needs to be done
06:35so that this f****** hearing can end?
06:39But the gate of House Sgt. at Arms,
06:41retired Police Major General Napoleon Taas,
06:44did not do anything against Lopez's rights.
06:48Only four people entered,
06:50three women,
06:51and behind them was a man who was a lawyer.
06:54A video was shown in the hearing
06:56where a woman was hitting a security guard,
07:00a woman wearing a police uniform,
07:02and a man wearing a black jacket.
07:04Hi ma'am, good evening.
07:06Can we open the door?
07:08Do you want to rob or what?
07:12In the video that was also shown in the hearing,
07:14the camera man saw that Lopez and his accomplice were talking in the room.
07:18Later on, Lopez took something
07:20and his cell phone, which was given to his accomplice, flipped.
07:24Here, we can see that there was no escalation.
07:27It was not stolen.
07:28It was not forcibly taken from them.
07:30They just removed it from their possession
07:32and put it on the table.
07:34The cell phone was left inside the cell.
07:38For GMA Integrated News,
07:40I am Tan Andal, your witness.