• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Philippines’ Duterte accused of stifling scrutiny in senate probes

September 14, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 14, 2021

MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered members of his cabinet to get his consent before appearing at senate investigations, fuelling accusations from activists and some politicians of an attempt to stifle scrutiny.

Duterte gave the directive in a recorded televised address aired on Tuesday after he said senators probing his government’s use of more than $1 billion in pandemic https://ift.tt/3k6ahuK were using the hearings to further their political ambitions.

“I will require every cabinet member to clear with me any invitation, and if I think he will be called…to be harassed, berated…I will not allow (them to attend),” Duterte said.

This was not the first time Duterte has challenged the investigative powers of Congress. In January, he directed the head of his military detail to ignore legislative summons issued by the senate, https://ift.tt/3CbEkr6 which was probing his guards for inoculating themselves with an unauthorised COVID-19 vaccine.

“I will limit you to what you can do with the executive department,” Duterte told the senators, but added if the invitation was reasonable and “in pursuant of the truth” then he would not stand in the way.

In a post on Twitter, activist Renato Reyes of the left-wing alliance Bayan (Nation), labelled the order as “tyrannical” and accused Duterte of trying to cover up corruption.

Duterte has told senators to stop probing ongoing programmes https://ift.tt/3C8t1Qz after they zeroed in on a multi-billion peso medical supplies contract his government awarded to a small-capitalised firm with links to public officials during the hearing.

Duterte, whose government is facing growing criticism over its handling of the pandemic, has said the deal was above-board, and accused the senators of “stretching the hearing because it is good for elections”.

Former congressman and activist Neri Colmenares urged cabinet members to keep attending the senate hearings because otherwise it breached the “wish of the people” to scrutinise such transactions.

Senate President Vicente Sotto has defended the senate’s record, saying last month, the upper chamber’s investigations have led to the removal of government officials and the filing of cases against them.

(Reporting by Karen Lema; Editing by Ed Davies)

Source Link Philippines’ Duterte accused of stifling scrutiny in senate probes

David Barret
David Barret

Related posts:

  1. Have ‘The Privacy Talk’ with your business partners
  2. Families of protesters killed in Colombia face long wait for justice
  3. Rallying – Toyota’s Rovanpera leads in Greece after day one
  4. Gillmor Gang: Life Goes On

Filed Under: News

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

  • First Ever Image Of “Free Floating” Atoms, The Nocebo Effect Beats The Placebo Effect When It Comes To Pain, And Much More This Week
  • 165-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is New Species Of Ancient Parasite. Did It Come From A Dinosaur’s Butt?
  • It’s True: Time Really Does Move Slower When You’re Exercising
  • Salmon Make Some Of The Most Epic Migrations In Nature. Why Do They Bother?
  • The Catholic Apostolic Church In Albury Has Been Sealed “Until The Second Coming”
  • The Voynich Manuscript Appears To Follow Zipf’s Law. Could It Be A Real Language?
  • When Will All Life On Earth Die Out? Here’s What The Data Says
  • One Of The World’s Rarest And Most Endangered Mammals Is *Checks Notes* A Unicorn
  • Neanderthals Used World’s Oldest Wooden Spears To Hunt Horses 200,000 Years Ago
  • Striking Results Show Neanderthal Crafters Were Sharper Than We Thought
  • Pioneering Research Reveals How Darkness And Light Made The Parthenon Appear Divine
  • Peculiar Material Revealed To Have Hidden Quantum State That Can’t Be Flipped In A Mirror
  • Extremely Rare Belalanda Chameleon Found Living 5 Kilometers Outside Its Very Small Range
  • Frogs Are So Vulnerable, How Did They Survive When T. Rex Didn’t?
  • Florida Man Gets Too Close To Bison In Yellowstone, Promptly Finds Out Why This Is A Bad Idea
  • Is A Bone A Worthy Weapon When Fighting The Rancor? What About A T. Rex?
  • Musical Cyborgs: Scientists Influence Cicadas’ Buzz So They Perform Pachelbel’s Canon In D
  • World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates Revealed – And Humans Are To Blame
  • Watch As Stadium-Sized Asteroid, Largest Of 5, Flies By Earth
  • Deleting “Mitch” Protein From Cells Could Make Humans “Immune” To Obesity
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version