By Junex Doronio
SHORT OF SAYING THAT HE SHOULD MAN UP, House Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela Rep. Arlene Brosas has dared former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to face the complaint filed against him by fellow Makabayan bloc member ACT Teachers party-list Representative France Castro.
Brosas said Duterte should not evade Castro’s grave threat complaint just like what he did with the International Criminal Court (ICC) that is investigating FRRD’s alleged “crimes against humanity” in the course of Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs throughout his six-year term as president of the Republic.
She noted that Duterte no longer enjoys presidential immunity from suit.
“Again wala na siyang immunity kaya dapat humarap siya sa mga kasong ito laban sa kanya,” Brosas pointed out in a press conference on Friday.
Duterte earlier said that he would rather go to jail than submit his counter-affidavit on Castro’s grave threat complaint.
“Humarap siya. Kaya dapat maging accountable siya at harapin niya ang kaso laban sa kanya,” Brosas insisted.
She added: “Huwag niyang takasan ang kasong ito tulad ng ginagawa niya na pag-iwas sa imbestigasyon ng International Criminal Court or ICC hinggil sa kanyang war on drugs.”
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