MANILA – The impeachment threat against Vice President Leni Robredo for supporting a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution seeking to review the war on drugs in the country was “just a warning,” according to Presidential anti-corruption commissioner Atty. Manuelito Luna.
Luna said he warned Robredo and has no intention of filing an impeachment rap.
“It’s a warning so she can also think it over, that she has to temper her statements. Although I respect her, she’s a politician, she’s a lawyer like me but she has to temper her statements,” Luna said.
“Do not embarrass our government internationally. You can always ventilate matters within and we can debate all day, all night without accusing our government of wrongdoings without substantial basis,” he added.
Robredo earlier urged President Rodrigo Duterte to allow the UNHRC to conduct its investigation into the human rights situation in the country “if they had nothing to hide.”
According to Luna, Robredo’s statement was tantamount to “betrayal of public trust” and some groups have expressed interest in filing an impeachment complaint against the vice president.
“I cannot sit idly by while our vice president is lambasting our government, taking a position different from our President and says that it’s okay and making it appear that the government is into human rights abuses. That’s some bullshit. Excuse me for my words,” Luna said.
The UNHRC adopted a resolution at the 41st regular session of the council in Geneva. Of the 47 member-states, 18 voted in favor of conducting an investigation into the Philippines’ drug war.
Independent experts urged the UNHRC to launch an independent investigation into a “sharp deterioration in human rights across the Philippines” due to a “staggering number of violent and unlawful killings of drug suspects.”/PN
Manuelito Luna can give a best reason why somebody is to be impeached if it will support the human right investigation. Are you insane or nagpapakita kalang ng ka ga gohan mo para sumipsip sa Presidente. Abogado ka ba or Aboga go. Where the betrayal of public trust in the context. Human Right is a Public Right it is an individual right to be protected. Tang a ka rin mag isip nakakahiya ka . . .