VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte DID NOT order Palparan’s prison release
No such pronouncement has come from either the president or Malacañang.
No such pronouncement has come from either the president or Malacañang.
Mula sa pagtawag kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na isang coddler ng New People’s Army (NPA), si retiradong Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr., na nahatulan sa pag-kidnap at serious illegal detention, ay "naniniwala" ngayon na si Duterte ang nag-iisang pangulo na maaaring "magtapos" sa paghihimagsik ng komunista sa bansa.
From calling President Rodrigo Duterte a coddler of the New People’s Army (NPA), retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr., who was convicted of kidnapping and serious illegal detention, now “believes” Duterte is the only president who can “end” the communist insurgency in the country.
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL RETIRED army general Jovito Palparan, who was implicated in the disappearance of University of the Philippines students Karen Empeno and Sherlyn Cadapan, made it to the top 12 of the senatorial race in the Local Absentee Voting (LAV) results. Former senator Panfilo Lacson, who served as chief of the Philippine National