The President slams anew the United States of
America (USA) for their demand to release from opposition senator Leila De
Lima, who have been detained for drug charges since February of 2017.
In his speech before the attendees of the National
Commission for Culture and the Arts’ 12th Ani ng Dangal, the President
explained his decision to terminate the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement
with the U.S.
“Every day, in the newspaper and in the halls of
the Senate of the United States, we were being portrayed as a Republic
incapable of administering simple justice. Araw-araw yan, and sad to say, the
other political party used it, at sumakay itong Left and some of them are
already employed in the US Congress as employees,” according to the President.
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| Senator Leila De Lima and President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (photo credit to owner) |
“But when the Senate placed in the colatilla doon
sa mga aid, aid na naibigay, na tayo being portrayed as incapable of investigating
extrajudicial killings, but most of all, we were pictured to have persecuted
and committed a grave injustice to a certain person. I am referring to de
Lima,” he added.
President Duterte maintains that De Lima is not a
victim of political persecution and that her case has always been in accordance
with our existing laws.
“They were demanding that we release
de Lima. Si de Lima, dumaan ng imbestigasyon. And the investigation had been
brought to the Supreme Court to decide whether or not everything was in order,
and the Supreme Court said it is.
“Ang problema nitong Amerikano, they
kept on hammering and demanding the release, and then threatening na ‘yung mga
Filipino officials in government who were one way or another connected with the
case, whether as a investigator or a prosecutor or even the Supreme Court,
which rendered an opinion on a certain point to the case, lahat, hindi naman
sinabi, not in so many words, but said that they will cancel or deny entry,” he
said.
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