The House of Representatives will be filing this week a string of complaints against Sen. Leila de Lima for telling her former driver-bodyguard Ronnie Dayan to hide and skip a House inquiry on illegal drugs.
In a radio dzBB interview on Sunday, Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali, chair of the House justice committee, said they plan to file an ethics complaint, a criminal complaint, and a disbarment case against the senator all "within the week siguro."
"This coming week, maaaring gawin na iyan kasi iyong mga lawyers namin sa committee on justice and lawyers ng House of Representatives are already working on it," said Umali.
The congressman said he expects to get a draft of the complaints.
"I think the leadership of the House will not waste any minute to file it. Kasi nga alam mo sa buhay naman puwede namang 'pag naging maayos ang takbo ay pwedeng hindi ituloy," said Umali.
"Pero 'pag nandiyan na nga 'yan at nagkakagulo na, eh malakas pa ang dating nong sa tingin natin ay nagkasala sa House of Representatives ay puwedeng lahat yon i-file," said Umali, even as he stressed he was merely "taking the cue from the leadership of the House."
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez earlier said the House could still end up issuing an arrest warrant against De Lima for her actions, after she declared she would not honor the show cause order issued to her by the House justice panel.
De Lima had repeatedly said her message to Dayan not to show up at the House hearing was merely advice and not an order.
Umali had earlier said the House for now would not be issuing an arrest warrant against De Lima to "avoid that [confrontation] because of interchamber courtesy."
In a radio dzBB interview on Sunday, Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali, chair of the House justice committee, said they plan to file an ethics complaint, a criminal complaint, and a disbarment case against the senator all "within the week siguro."
"This coming week, maaaring gawin na iyan kasi iyong mga lawyers namin sa committee on justice and lawyers ng House of Representatives are already working on it," said Umali.
The congressman said he expects to get a draft of the complaints.
"I think the leadership of the House will not waste any minute to file it. Kasi nga alam mo sa buhay naman puwede namang 'pag naging maayos ang takbo ay pwedeng hindi ituloy," said Umali.
"Pero 'pag nandiyan na nga 'yan at nagkakagulo na, eh malakas pa ang dating nong sa tingin natin ay nagkasala sa House of Representatives ay puwedeng lahat yon i-file," said Umali, even as he stressed he was merely "taking the cue from the leadership of the House."
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez earlier said the House could still end up issuing an arrest warrant against De Lima for her actions, after she declared she would not honor the show cause order issued to her by the House justice panel.
De Lima had repeatedly said her message to Dayan not to show up at the House hearing was merely advice and not an order.
Umali had earlier said the House for now would not be issuing an arrest warrant against De Lima to "avoid that [confrontation] because of interchamber courtesy."
Source: gmanetwork
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