PRESIDENTIAL bet Rodrigo Duterte on Friday challenged Vice President Jejomar Binay to file criminal charges against him in court if the evidence showed he had been directly involved in killings in Davao City.
“If you have evidence against me, then file a case,” he said.
He made his statement even as Binay on Friday said Duterte’s days were numbered and that the law would eventually catch up with him.
He reminded Duterte that he had admitted to extra-judicial killings, which he said was considered “admission against interest.”
He said if there was someone who should kneel down and pray it should be Duterte”•because he had admitted several times that he had killed many people.
“This is called admission against interest and you should know this being a former fiscal and a lawyer,” Binay said.
Duterte reacted when Binay came out with a video urging the people not to vote for him.
Duterte said he had not been involved in the summary execution of criminals in Davao City during his 22 years as its mayor.
After a series of investigations, Duterte said, even the Commission on Human Rights and the Department of Justice had failed to link him to any killings.
He said a former Justice secretary had twice investigated him for but never filed a case.
He insisted that he had never killed women and children. Rio N. Araja and Vito Barcelo
“I have never never killed an innocent person,” Duterte said.
Instead of killing drug dependents, Duterte said, the Davao City government put up a multi-million-peso drug rehabilitation center to encourage them to voluntarily check themselves in.
“Why should I kill them? It would be better to let them go through rehabilitation,” Duterte said.
But he admitted to killing some criminals, including three men that he shot dead during his first term as mayor for abducting a minor.