Vice Pres. Sara Duterte Sends Letter to House of Representatives
SARA DUTERTE – The Vice President once again skipped the House of Representatives hearing on her office’s budget use.
It is no secret to the public that Vice Pres. Duterte is currently surrounded by several issues. She has repeatedly skipped the hearings set by the House of Representatives and it gained different reactions from the people.
Vice Pres. Sara Duterte has previously appeared at a House hearing but she refused to take an oath. She also left the inquiry early. According to the Vice President, she was allegedly not asked and she was just sitting there so she decided to seek a permission to leave the probe.
Vice Pres. Duterte has snubbed the investigation on the DepEd fund during her term as the education secretary as well as the hearing set for the deliberation of the 2025 budget proposal of the Office of the Vice President.
Several House lawmakers and members were left disappointed by the repetitive non-appearance of Vice Pres. Sara Duterte in the House hearings. The lower chamber decided to give the OVP a P733 million budget.
According to the House, the P1.3 billion budget cut from the P2-billion budget proposal of the office of Vice Pres. Duterte is eyed to be re-allocated to the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Vice Pres. Sara Duterte also did not submit budget documents to the Senate. Thus, the upper chamber decided to adopt the P733-million budget appropriated by the House for the OVP.
Recently, the Vice President appeared at a House Quad Committee hearing but it was about the war on drugs. For the first time, former Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte appeared at the House Quad Comm hearing over his administration’s drug war.
At the hearing, the younger Duterte was allegedly given an invitation to the November 20 hearing of the House on the budget use of her office. The inquiry is led by the Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability.
However, Vice Pres. Sara Duterte has decided to skip the House hearing on her office’s budget use anew. She sent a letter to the lower chamber addressed to committee chairperson Hon. Joel R. Chua. Here’s the letter of Duterte based on a post of X user Giselle Ombay:
READ: Vice President Sara Duterte once again declines to attend the House probe on how their office used its budget, including confidential funds. @gmanews @gmanewsbreaking pic.twitter.com/29EP1Af0bu
— Giselle Ombay (@giselleombay_) November 20, 2024
Previously, Vice Pres. Duterte claimed that she refuses to attend the House hearing because she did once and she was not asked.