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Vice President Sara Duterte cannot use confidentiality as an excuse not to respond to questions of lawmakers regarding her office’s use of confidential funds, a former Commission on Audit commissioner said.

Nearly two-thirds of people listed by Vice President Sara Duterte as recipients of her P500-million confidential funds in the Office of the Vice President have no birth certificates, indicating that all of them are fictitious like “Mary Grace Piattos” of the Department of Education .

It was at an early Christmas lunch when a friend asked if I thought that Vice President Sara Duterte would be impeached, with all the motions now on the table to that effect. I wasn’t expecting politics to be taken up over the merrymaking, but this is the Philippines where we breathe politics, so I obliged.

According to state statisticians, 1,322 individuals, or two-thirds of the recipients of the OVP’s P500 million confidential and intelligence funds have no marriage, death or birth records.

While undergoing impeachment proceedings is an “inconvenience,” Vice President Sara Duterte said she is ready to welcome it, as it can give her the chance to defend herself in a proper venue.