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Manila solon gives final word on VP Sara-PNP spat: 'We all want her to be safe' 

Published Aug 1, 2024 08:22 am

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  • House Assistant Majority Leader Manila 1st district Rep. Ernesto Dionisio Jr. gave perhaps the most fitting bookend to Vice President Sara Duterte's spat with the Philippine National Police (PNP) over the reduction of her security detail. 

20240801_151919.jpgManila 1st district Rep. Ernesto Dionisio Jr. (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook)

 

 

 

 

 

 



House Assistant Majority Leader Manila 1st district Rep. Ernesto Dionisio Jr. gave perhaps the most fitting bookend to Vice President Sara Duterte's spat with the Philippine National Police (PNP) over the reduction of her security detail. 

Dionisio did so by insisting on the "regularity" of the PNP's actions and at the same time wishing nothing but the best when it comes to Vice President Duterte's safety and welfare. 

"I think ang ating (our) Chief PNP [Rommel Marbil] is really doing his job, seeing where [to] best to deploy our police forces. We need to recall them for such that they know na you know, should be valid under the presumption of regularity," Dionisio said in a press conference Wednesday, July 31. 

"At the end of the day, the VP is secured, we wish her well doon sa bakasyon niya rin na much-needed break na pinuntahan niya (We wish her well on her vacation, the much-needed break that she took)," he said. 

"We hope that she gets to rejuvenate and you know, to enjoy her much needed break," added the ranking congressman. 

Dionisio was referring to the trip to Germany that Vice President Duterte took with her family last July 24, the same day that Typhoon "Carina" and and southwest monsoon plowed through the Philippines and left many areas inundated by floods. 

When the lady official came back, she learned that 75 of her police security detail had been removed by the PNP and assigned elsewhere. She slammed the move, saying it stemmed from "politics" and was a form of "harassment". 

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The Vice President reportedly still has 355 security personnel left, despite the removal of the 75 police escorts. Out of the 355, 31 were cops.  

"At the same time," Dioniso said, "The PNP again will always secure and the Presidential Security Group will secure the safety of her Vice president, we all want her to be safe." 

Another Manila solon, Rep. Joel Chua from the 3rd district, earlier claimed that Vice President Duterte's complaints over her security cutback was just her way of diverting from her "absence" in the country during the typhoon.
 

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