Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte has welcomed the filing of a complaint by self-confessed Davao Death Squad member, Edgar Matobato that included him as among the accused.
For the nth time, the vice mayor belied as fabricated lies the claims of Matobato that linked him to several killings in the city.
The vice-mayor’s reaction came after Matobato filed complaints at the Office of the Ombudsman against him, his father, President Rodrigo Duterte and 27 others for their alleged involvement in several killings.
The Presidential son said that Matobato’s action to file complaints against him and his father, on the Ombudsman’s office showed that the Philippines is a democratic state.
“The filing by Mr. Edgar Matobato of criminal and administrative charges against me and several others, including my father, President Rodrigo Duterte, is a proof that the Philippines is a democracy,” Paolo said.
He said that Matobato should not be prevented from exercising his rights to raise complaints against any official of the government.
But he stressed that everything that Matobato said against him and the President was all lies.
“A closer look at what was filed at the Ombudsman will easily allow us to see the only thing consistent in the Matobato tales — lies,” Paolo said. “What he filed at the Ombudsman was just a piece of garbage.”
The vice mayor said that the allegations thrown against him by Matobato were all “product of the imagination of a madman.”
On Friday morning, Matobato filed four charges against the two Dutertes, Philippine National Police (PNP) Director Ronald dela Rosa and several officials of the Davao City Police Office and alleged City Hall employees of Davao city.
The charges filed against them were, Murder, or violation of Article 248 of the Revised Penal Code, Kidnapping, or violation of Article 267 of the RPC, Violation of Republic Act No. 9745, or the Anti-Torture Act and Violation of Section 6(a), (f), (h), (i), and (k) of R.A. No. 9851, or the Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity.
Matobato claimed that Rodrigo created the Lambada boys in March 1988 who were responsible for the extra judicial killings in the city over the past years.
He also claimed that he was tortured in 2013 after he quit the DDS.
