Rep. Edcel C. Lagman
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There is a whale of a difference between the impeachment complaints against President Rodrigo Duterte and Vice President Leni Robredo.
The significant variances are the following:
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While President Duterte is charged with the high crimes of multiple murders and crimes against humanity for the summary killing of around 8,000 drug suspects which he reportedly encouraged, induced, tolerated and/or condoned, Vice President Robredo is supposedly charged with bringing to the attention of the United Nations, the institutional guardian of human rights and the rule of law, the extrajudicial killings committed in the wake of President Duterte’s deadly campaign against the so-called drug menace.
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President Duterte is charged with betrayal of public trust for the said extrajudicial killings, while Vice President Robredo upheld public trust by reporting the said summary executions to seek the stoppage of and sanctions for the said wanton criminality.
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President Duterte is accused of violating his oath of office under the Constitution for flagrant failure to execute the laws, do justice to every man and consecrate himself to the service of the nation, while Vice President Robredo for her actions has preserved and observed the sanctity of her oath of office.
The ascendancy of reason must prevail over the superiority of numbers when the House of Representatives assesses the disparate impeachment complaints.
EDCEL C. LAGMAN