Rowena Guanzon (left), Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa (Facebook)

P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon thinks it's better for Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa to simply keep quiet, if he wants to keep his close ally former president Rodrigo Duterte out of trouble. 

"Mas mabuti pa mag shut up na lang si Bato (It's better for Bato to just shut up)," Guanzon wrote in an X post on Thursday morning, Oct. 17. 

"Allowance hindi bountry for EJk daw (He said there's allowance, but no bounty for extrajudicial killings)," she said of Dela Rosa, a former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief during Duterte’s tenure. 

The outspoken Guanzon was referring to remarksfrom Dela Rosa the previous day wherein he told Senate reporters that Duterte--though then-Special Assistant to the President (SAP) and now Senator Christopher "Bong” Go--gave a "small amount" to police officers during command conferences. 

Dela Rosa said the money served as allowance for police. 

Reacting to the top cop--turned-senator's revelations, Guanzon said: "Lalong lumulubog sa quicksand (It further sinks in the quicksand)." 

"Liability itong si Bato kay Digong (Bato is a liability to Digong)," she added, referring to the ex-president's nickname. 

Guanzon is a proud kakampink, meaning a supporter of former vice president Leni Robredo. 

In her testimony before the House quad-committee (quad-comm) last Oct. 11, former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) general manager Royina Garma accused Duterte of spearheading a nationwide, cash reward-driven system during his administration's war on drugs, which encouraged cops to kill drug suspects. 

Garma further claimed that the cash rewards or bounty for drug war kills ranged from P20,000 for street-level suspects to P1 million for "chemists, traders, manufacturers, financiers, and ninja cops".