DAVAO CITY – This city is open to whatever the national government wants and needs to do, including the arrest of persons cited in contempt by the Senate, Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said on Monday.
“This shows that the city is open to whatever national government has to do. In fact, we have to support what government needs,” she told a regular Monday public affairs program over Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR).
The mayor said the arrest on Sunday of two Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. executives, Twinkle Dargani and her brother Mohit, at the Davao International Airport should indicate that “we have nothing to hide here and appreciative of the actions of the three branches of
government”.
The two executives were among those cited in contempt by the Senate on the ongoing hearing on government purchase of face shields and masks last year. The Senate said the two failed to submit documents subpoenaed by the Senate.
The Senate said the two Pharmally executives were about to board a private plane en route to Malaysia and which Sen. Richard Gordon were as moves of “evasion and flight” from the ongoing hearing, and which he said were indications of guilt
While Gordon said Davao City was “safe haven” Pharmally officials and including former Presidential Economic Adviser Michael Yang and former Budget Undersecretary Lloyd Christopher Lao, Sen, Panfilo Lacson admonished that “no place on earth is safe haven”.