Archive - Claims by Public Figures

There is no such law prohibiting public officials or government agencies from discussing confidential funds appropriated to their offices.

The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability, not the House quad comm, cited OVP’s Zuleika Lopez in contempt.

When asked about specific “high-value” victims of extrajudicial killings attributed to the drug war, Duterte gave various reasons distancing himself from the cases.

When lawmakers pressed Rodrigo Duterte to sign the waiver to open his bank accounts for scrutiny while the hearing was going on, the former president started giving various conditions.

Hindi tumpak ang pahayag ni House Rep. Robert Ace Barbers na 73 lamang ang napatay sa mga drug-related police operations sa una at kalahating taon ng Marcos administration.

From denying the existence of the DDS when he was mayor of Davao City, former president Rodrigo Duterte said that former Davao police officers present in the Oct. 28 Senate probe on his administration’s drug war were commanders of the DDS.

State-owned PIA plagiarized parts of a study by independent researcher Jeanne Frances Illo on the Bicol River Basin Development Project of the late president Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

When questioned about his drug war policy, former president Rodrigo Duterte falsely claimed that he did not order the killing of drug addicts, but later admitted that he did.

Former president Rodrigo Duterte's joint bank account in question is with his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, not his wife.

Former president Rodrigo Duterte had earlier endorsed aspirants for the 2025 senatorial and party-list elections.

Surigao Del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers inaccurately cited a VERA Files article, saying there were only 73 drug-related killings under Marcos from July 2022 to 2023.

Sa ilang mga talumpati, sinabi ni Rodrigo Duterte na palabanin ang mga kriminal na sangkot sa droga kung ayaw nilang lumaban.