Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Tuesday, September 14, has criticized Senator Richard Gordon once again, saying he will campaign against the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Chair for not being fit for his job as a Senator.
Duterte said in his speech, “I would like to remind Senator Gordon na I will campaign against you for being unfit to be a senator of this republic. Well, others are trying to be a Chinese when they are not. Ikaw naman you are trying to be American na hindi ka naman talaga totoo na Amerikano.”
The President earlier mentioned that he will find out “what’s wrong” with the Senators, initially probing Senator Gordon who is currently on top of the investigation of the allegedly ‘questionable’ overpricing of medical supplies during the pandemic in a time period last year.
“Every time that there is a committee hearing, you subpoena more than a hundred resource persons and witness and more than half of that number come from government. Instead of working, they are stuck attending hearings that last for more than 5 hours,” Duterte stressed.
Previously, Duterte has threatened to stop transactions of the national government with the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), after accusing Gordon, who is also the PRC Chairman, of using the non-government humanitarian organization’s budget to fund his electoral campaign for 2022.
“Tama ba yung ginagawa ninyo? Are you crazy? Bakit ganon? Can you not approximate the time that you take to make these persons testify, question and answer? Lalo na ikaw Gordon, abogado ka. It’s a waste of time,” Duterte added.
The Chief executive earlier also ordered the Commission on Audit (COA) to probe the PRC.
Senator Gordon then responded to Duterte saying the President is only on “self-destruct mode” and his attacks against the Senators are merely distractions. TNF