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Roque: I haven’t seen Liza Maza attend any Cabinet meeting

By: - Reporter / @JLeonenINQ
/ 01:50 PM July 31, 2018

Harry Roque

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/JOAN BONDOC

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said on Tuesday that he has never seen embattled Anti-Poverty Secretary Liza Maza in any Cabinet meeting ever since he joined the Cabinet.

In a press briefing, Roque said he could not remember when was the last time Maza reported to Malacañang since he never saw her in any of the Cabinet meeting.

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Maza and other leftist leaders and former lawmakers are facing arrest when a warrant against them was issued by a trial court in Palayan City, Nueva Ecija for charges of alleged election-related violence in 2006.

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“Never. Ever since I joined the Cabinet, I have not seen her in any Cabinet meeting,” Roque said.

“She’s still part of NAPC [National Anti-Poverty Commission] as far as a I know, but as I said, since I came on board, I have not seen her attend any Cabinet meeting,” he stressed.

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The Presidential Spokesperson said that Maza should surrender to authorities because “we cannot have a secretary who is a fugitive from law.”

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Roque joined President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet in October 2017 as a replacement of former Presidential Spokesperson and now Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Ernesto Abella.

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Maza assumed office as lead convenor of the NAPC in August 2016. /jpv

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