Impeachment raps vs Sara Duterte yet to be referred to Speaker's office —Dy

House Speaker Faustino Dy III said Thursday Secretary General Cheloy Garafil has not yet referred any impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte to his office.

Dy shook his head and hand when asked if the Secretary General already transmitted to his office the impeachment complaints. 

The Speaker also refused to comment on the determination of insufficiency in substance of the impeachment complaints against President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., and the Ombudsman’s complaint regarding the refusal of the House of Representatives to release SALNs amid the ongoing investigation on the alleged involvement of members of Congress in anomalous flood control projects.

The first impeachment complaint against the Vice President was by Makabayan coalition and their allied groups alleged that the Vice President betrayed public trust due to the following acts:

• ordering subordinates to prepare implausible accomplishment reports supported by fabricated liquidation reports and falsified documents for submission to the Commission on Audit to support the use of confidential funds; and
• dereliction of official duty with her willful refusal to recognize congressional oversight during budget deliberations and its authority to conduct inquiries in aid of legislation.

The second impeachment complaint filed was filed civil society organization Tindig Pilipinas and others and accuses the second highest ranking public official of the land of betrayal of public trust, betrayal of public trust, culpable violation of the Constitution, and a commission of high crime over the following deeds:

• Duterte's admission, done in a public broadcast, of contracting an assassin to kill President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr., First Lady Liza Marcos and then-Speaker Martin Romualdez;
• misuse and malversation of her confidential funds as Vice President and then Department of Education Secretary;
• causing the distribution of monetary gifts to Department of Education officials holding procurement-related functions;
• massing of unexplained wealth and failure to disclose all her properties and interests in properties in her Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth; and
• being involved in the extrajudicial killings of the Davao Death Squad during her tenure as mayor of Davao City.

Dy was in the House on Thursday during the House local government sub-panel hearing on the proposed Magna Carta for Barangays.  —with reports from Llanesca T. Panti/ AOL, VAL, GMA Integrated News