Senator Christopher "Bong" Go (left), Royina Garma (Facebook)

Senator Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go has expressed willingness to attend the hearing of the House quad-committee (quad-comm) on the previous Duterte administration's war on illegal drugs.

But Go cited a catch: that little thing that lawmakers call "inter-parliamentary courtesy".

"Ako naman, kung kailangan, bakit hindi? Gusto natin ng katotohanan. Kaya lang po, meron tayong inter-parliamentary courtesy (As for me, if necessary, why not? We all want the truth. However, we have inter-parliamentary courtesy)," he said in a chance interview on Monday, Oct. 14.

On the other hand, he also brought up the possibility of the Senate conducting a parallel probe of former President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war.

"Kung kakailanganin po para magkaroon tayo ng parallel investigation dito sa Senado para malaman po natin ang  katotohanan (If it's necessary so we can have a parallel investigation here in the Senate so we can find out the truth)," he said. 

"I'm very much willing na mag-file din po ng resolusyon para magkaroon po ng investigation rin po dito sa Senado. Para malaman natin kung ano lang yung totoo (I'm very much willing to file a resolution for an investigation to be conducted in the Senate as well. So we can find out what the truth really is)," he added.

Asked what he would specifically look into, Go said: "Lahat na po, pangkalahatan. War on drugs, kung kakailanganan natin (In general, everything. War on drugs, if we need to)."

Recently, retired police colonel and former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) general manager Royina Garma mentioned Go's involvement in the so-called "Davao model" or the cash reward system employed for killing drug suspects. 

Garma said this would later be adopted by Dutertw on a national scale, based on her affidavit.

She mentioned that after a meeting with Duterte in his residence in Dona Luisa, Davao City, the former president requested that she "locate a Philippine National Police (PNP) officer or operative who is a member of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, indicating that he needed someone capable of implementing the war on drugs on a national scale, replicating the Davao model".

Garma later recommended the name of her upperclassman Edilberto Leonardo, who was then handling the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).

"Leonardo subsequently informed me that he had prepared a proposal routed through Bong Go, outlining the task force's operations, which would encompass Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao," she said.

Go reiterated that he had nothing to do with Duterte's war on drugs.

"Wala po akong kinalaman at hindi ko po mandato yan. Ang trabaho ko nun, nasa executive order, engagement ng presidente, hindi naman po maiwasan  na ako yung tinatawag parati ng presidente, halika rito, i-arrange mo mga meetings, pero hindi po sa operations ng war on drugs (I have no involvement and it's not part of my mandate. My job at that time, as stated in the executive order, involved engaging with the President on various matters, and it was unavoidable that the President often called on me, saying 'come here' or 'arrange these meetings'. However, this did not include operations related to the war on drugs)," he said.

"Wala po akong kinalaman dyan at hindi po ako involved sa war on drugs (I have nothing to do with that and I am not involved in the war on drugs)," he added.