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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.”

Former Philippine National Police chief-turned-senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa slammed authorities for failing to present Duterte in a local court before flying him out of the Philippines.

“Isipin mo hindi man lang binigyan ng respeto ‘yung ating mga courts ‘no. Supposed to be kung talagang hinuli nila, dapat i-present muna nila sa court bago nila dalhin don sa ibang lugar, ibang bansa,” dela Rosa told reporters in a recent interview.

Dear Editor,

More questions on rescue ops, transparency, and integrity

I wish to raise significant concerns about a recent police operation on a kidnapped 14-year-old Chinese student of a British school in Taguig City, conducted by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine National Police (PNP).