Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa slammed the administration of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., echoing Atty. Alexis Medina's legal opinion is that former President Rodrigo Duterte's constitutional rights were violated when authorities surrendered him to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Being in the spotlight often evokes a sense of admiration and prestige, as it signifies recognition of one's efforts and talents. However, for public figures like Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla, the spotlight carries a weight of scrutiny and magnifies missteps.
Serious questions about his credibility and ability to lead the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) are popping up.
As he lamented the deep divisiveness in the country over the arrest of former President Rodrigo R. Duterte and his transfer to The Hague, Netherlands for trial before the International Criminal Court, Davao Archbishop Romulo G. Valles said justice must be pursued with fairness and integrity.
“It must remain free from partisan political motivations or personal vendettas,” Valles said in his Pastoral Message to all Christian faithful of Davao on Tuesday.
The recent uproar surrounding DILG Secretary Jonvic Remulla and his role in the unfolding drama regarding former President Rodrigo Duterte's “kidnap” to The Hague, Netherlands begs our paramount concern.
The way the situation is shaping up, it’s tough to see how Remulla can maintain any shred of credibility after the hilarious statement he made regarding the "rescue" of a kidnapped Chinese student—and then, well, it turned out to be quite the opposite.
It makes many Filipinos wonder if he has played a much larger role in a questionable political game.
Asserts PH has no legal obligation to cooperate with ICC
The Office of the Solicitor General — the legal representative of the Philippine Government, its agencies and officials in any litigation — firmly declared that it is under no legal obligation to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) or recognize any proceedings originating from it post-withdrawal from the Rome Statute.
There seem to be more juicy bits beyond Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla's revelations during recent media interviews.
It was explosive enough to say that the Office of the President chartered the silver Gulfstream jet with tail number RP-C5219 to transport former president Rodrigo Roas Duterte to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
This came a few days after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s late-night press briefing, minutes after the plane in which the former President was forcibly whisked into left.
This was how former Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea described former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s arrest over murder allegations and transport to The Hague, Netherlands, on March 11.
In his manifestation during Duterte’s initial appearance before the International Criminal Court on Friday night (Manila time), Medialdea, one of the former’s lawyers, did not mince words in saying that “the whole world witnessed the degrading fashion in which a former president of a sovereign country was bundled onto a private aircraft and summarily transported to The Hague.”
For all his vaunted keen sense of anticipation, former President Rodrigo Duterte probably never saw incarceration in a Dutch penitentiary in the closing years of his life coming.
FPRRD’s long and lonely journey to The Hague after being fed to the wolves by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is now well documented. It has dominated the headlines at home and started attracting the attention of the international media.
