{"id":157877,"date":"2018-03-23T03:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T07:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=157877"},"modified":"2018-03-23T03:04:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T07:04:04","slug":"duterte-says-turning-napoles-into-state-witness-is-aguirres-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/23\/duterte-says-turning-napoles-into-state-witness-is-aguirres-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte says turning Napoles into state witness is Aguirre\u2019s strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Rodrigo Duterte said he did not have a say on Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II decision to place Janet Lim-Napoles under the government\u2019s Witness Protection Program (WPP), for such move was Aguirre\u2019s \u201cown strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before his supporters during the gathering of Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte National Executive Coordinating Committee (MRRD-NECC)\u00a0<span>on Wednesday<\/span>\u00a0night, the president said he does interfere in the decisions of his cabinet secretaries as he allows them to do things according to what they believe is right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI leave it all to them \u2026 Vit Aguiirre\u2014 I said, \u2018Why is he being involved in Napoles?\u2019 That\u2019s his strategy,\u201d\u00a0Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This came after the Department of Justice received numerous criticisms for its decision to temporarily include the alleged \u201cpork barrel queen\u201d in the WPP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 03\/ 23\/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte said he did not have a say on Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II decision to place Janet &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13135,12898,28064],"class_list":["post-157877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-vitaliano-aguirre-ii","tag-witness-protection-program-wpp","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}