Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte of Davao City branded as "mere hearsay" the accusations hurled against him by Edgar Matobato, who claimed during a Senate hearing to be a member of the Davao Death Squad.
Through the Chief Information Officer of Davao City, the vice mayor said, "What [Senator Leila] de Lima and this certain Matobato say in public are bare allegations in the absence of proof. They are mere hearsay. I will not dignify with an answer the accusations of a madman."
De Lima chairs the Senate committee on justice and human rights, which was investigating the extrajudicial killings being linked to President Rodrigo Duterte's war on illegal drugs.
Source: GMA News Online
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