Backing his special assistant Christopher “Bong” Go, President Rodrigo Duterte lambasted the media for reporting that the former has intervened in a multi-billion peso project to acquire two new warships for the Philippine Navy.<\/p>\n
Go’s alleged intervention in a P15.5-billion project to obtain two frigates for the Philippines was reported by news organizations Rappler and Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s assistant denied the allegations. His boss, Duterte, stood by his statement, and said that if reports would be proven true, he would order Go\u2019s resignation immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cFind a way to prove that we intervened. I\u2019ll give it to you. And if you can find, I will ask Bong to resign tomorrow. Work on it tonight. Let me know tomorrow and I will fire him if he did intervene, even for one word,” Duterte said Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The president added that Go has no reason to meddle with the project for the sake of acquiring money because he is a billionaire.<\/p>\n
“Who gave you idea he can intervene? Where is his signature?… You know, I am not bragging. But this man is a billionaire, just so you know\u2026 He seems to appear intervening because about money? The things that you are telling never happened,” he added.<\/p>\n
Duterte also slammed Rappler for producing “fake” articles.<\/p>\n
“For your information, you can your suspicious mind from roaming somewhere else. But since you are a fake news outlet then I am not surprised that your articles are also fake,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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