{"id":93509,"date":"2017-03-11T05:20:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93509"},"modified":"2017-03-11T05:21:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T10:21:01","slug":"pres-duterte-focused-on-filipino-people-says-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/11\/pres-duterte-focused-on-filipino-people-says-spokesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Duterte focused on Filipino people, says spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91843\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PH5-021917_ACE-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91843\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PH5-021917_ACE-7.jpg\" alt=\"Despite all the noise to put the President down, President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s focus is on the Filipino people, Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said Saturday. (Photo: ACE MORANDANTE\/ Presidential Photo)\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PH5-021917_ACE-7.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PH5-021917_ACE-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PH5-021917_ACE-7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PH5-021917_ACE-7-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite all the noise to put the President down, President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s focus is on the Filipino people, Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said Saturday. (Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/pcoo.gov.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/PH5-021917_ACE-7.jpg\">ACE MORANDANTE\/ Presidential Photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014Despite all the noise to put the President down, President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s focus is on the Filipino people, Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSa totoo lang po, ano ba talaga ang pursuit, ano ba talaga ang habol ng Presidente kundi isang maayos na bayan. Isang bayan na talagang nararapat para sa ating mga Pilipino,\u201d Abella told Radyo ng Bayan in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>He also shrugged off reports that Senate witnesses, retired police officer Arturo Lasca\u00f1as and Edgar Matobato, are willing to testify against President Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying the administration has not done any crime that could be tried by the ICC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnang-una po siguro maintindihan natin, \u2018yung\u2026 mga krimen na pinag-uusapan sa ICC ay may kanya-kanyang klasipikasyon,\u201d Abella said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWala naman tayong kinakalaban na ethnic, racial or religious na mga grupo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Palace official also said that the Duterte administration cannot be faulted for extrajudicial killings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHindi po applicable sa atin \u2018yung extrajudicial killings\u2026 wala, hindi po applicable. Hindi siya state-sanctioned. Saka ang dini-deal natin dito ay krimen against drugs and dealers and drug addiction and drug dealing\u2026 Actually nga, these are just police operations,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Abella further said that the Palace is unfazed by reports that the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has formed a new team to reopen the investigation on the so-called Davao Death Squad because Lasca\u00f1as has already lost his credibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscredited na po si Lasca\u00f1as at kung sino man ang kasa-kasama niya eh siyempre, kaduda-duda rin,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Despite all the noise to put the President down, President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s focus is on the Filipino people, Presidential spokesperson &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[14166,2444],"class_list":["post-93509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-ernesto-abella","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93509","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=93509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}