{"id":119991,"date":"2017-09-28T03:12:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=119991"},"modified":"2017-09-28T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:30:43","slug":"tindig-pilipinas-to-duterte-sign-or-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/28\/tindig-pilipinas-to-duterte-sign-or-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Tindig Pilipinas to Duterte: Sign or resign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thousands of anti-Duterte administration\u00a0rallyists assembled at the Rizal Park for their outcry against the alleged extrajudicial killings under the administration\u2019s war on drugs and on the declaration of Martial Law. (Photo<\/a>: Liberal Party of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new cause-oriented group Tindig Pilipinas would leave no stone unturned in the investigation of President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s alleged undeclared wealth as \u201cintegrity demands it.”<\/p>\n

Tindig Pilipinas has released a statement yesterday, urging Duterte to sign bank secrecy waivers that will allow the Office of the Ombudsman to scrutinize his bank accounts. Otherwise, the president should resign if he refuses to sign, Tindig Pilipinas said.<\/p>\n

Expressing an utmost alarm, the group cited the Ombudsman\u2019s announcement that it received several documents of bank records from Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) which states that Duterte and his family has billions in the bank. According to Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang, the documents look “more or less” like those submitted by Duterte’s staunch critic, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the group criticized Duterte\u2019s character, stressing that they will not allow the administration to create a “counter crisis to distract people who are seeking answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe cannot just laugh this off, dissemble yet again, contradict himself as if this is an acceptable quirk of his character,”\u00a0Tindig Pilipinas said.<\/p>\n

The group also expressed doubts over Duterte\u2019s statement that his wealth came from a \u201csizeable inheritance.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is very simple: where did these billions come from? Then candidate Duterte painted himself as a poor man who built his fortune on his decades as a salaried civil servant. Yet, even assuming we would accept his revised story that his parents gave him a sizeable inheritance, that cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, explain the billions,\u201d Tindig Pilipinas said.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Duterte stated that he and his family became millionaires through an inherited wealth from their father, former Davao Governor Vicente Duterte, that was divided among siblings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know where the fortunes of public officials with no known livelihood come from \u2013 corruption, smuggling, crime syndicates and drugs. Tell us, President Duterte, if it is none of these, then what is it?\u201d Tindig Pilipinas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou ran on a platform of anti-corruption, anti-crime, and anti-drugs. Now you need to explain in a clear, detailed and unequivocal way what the sources of your wealth are, when you earned which amounts and where the amounts are now,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

The group emphasized that complete transparency is the only approach that will end doubts on his and his family\u2019s wealth.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Palace said that the president respects the processes of the Ombudsman in investigating his wealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President respects the internal processes of the [Office of the Ombudsman] as an independent body and trusts its impartiality in the conduct of its fact-finding duty,\u201d presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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