De Lima to House on showing of ‘sex video’: Have you no shame?
“Have you no shame?”
Senator Leila de Lima asked this question on Tuesday to members of the House of Representatives who still want to show the sex video allegedly involving her in its ongoing investigation on the supposed proliferation of illegal drugs at the New Bilibid Prison during her time as justice secretary.
De Lima insisted that showing the alleged sex video was not the right thing to do.
“Dapat lang naman talaga (It must be so). If there’s any sense of decency left in these men in the House of Representatives, they better think twice about that demented plan of theirs to show that alleged sex video,” she told reporters.
The senator was reacting to Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez’s reported call to just leave the decision—whether or not to play the alleged sex scandal— to members of the House committee on justice conducting the probe.
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“Many have reacted already. I’m so moved by the outpouring of support especially from women’s groups. Hindi naman po talaga yan tama kahit anong anggulo tingnan nyo yan. Hindi po tama yan (It is not right any way you look at it),” she said.
De Lima said the House’s plan to show the video was just meant to shame her since she said it has no relevance to the issue being investigated by the House.
“Wala namang relevance yun, wala namang materiality yun doon sa subject matter na kanilang iniimbestgahan irrespective of the authenticity of the alleged sex video,” she said.
“Matagal na nilang pino-float yang alleged sex video and then ngayon na naman, ganyan na naman ang sasabihin nila o gagawin nila. Have you no shame? Tanugnin nyo na lang po yan sa sarili ninyo,” she further said.
(It has no relevance, it has no materiality on the subject matter being investigated on irrespective of the authenticity of the alleged sex video.
(They have long been floating that alleged sex video and now, that’s what they’ll say or do. Have you no shame? Ask yourselves that.) CDG/rga
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