Dispatch from Crame No. 1131:
Sen. Leila M. de Lima on Duterte digging up COA findings on DOJ & DILG under the Aquino administration

For someone who cannot even publicly disclose and release his own SALN, Duterte's accusation against me and Sec. Mar Roxas regarding COA's past reports on our agencies is just plain rich in irony and hypocrisy.

Duterte raising issue with COA reports on the DILG and the DOJ under the PNoy Administration is a clear case of misdirection. I challenge Duterte to file cases with the Ombudsman arising from those COA reports. He cannot, because those accounts have long been settled and closed. The COA knows that. That is why no further cases were made out of those reports, and that is why Duterte, with all his penchant for filing fabricated cases against me, was not able to fabricate a case out of those COA reports.

Besides, neither I nor Sec. Mar Roxas threatened the COA after those reports were released. Walang nagsisigaw sa aming dalawa sa telebisyon na winarak kami ng COA. At lalong hindi namin sinabihan ang COA na doktorin o "i-reconfigure" nila ang report nila. Hindi katulad ng iba diyan na daig pa ang telenobela sa hapon kung magdrama at magbanta laban sa COA.

Sec. Mar and I and other Cabinet members of the Aquino Administration always took COA reports seriously, corrected whatever deficiencies were identified in those reports, and acted accordingly to comply with COA recommendations. Hindi kami katulad ng mga ilang tao sa gobyerno ni Duterte na magngangangawngaw sa telebisyon, at lalong hindi katulad ni PNoy si Duterte na pagbabantaan ang COA dahil lamang ginawa nito ang trabaho nila.

Tulad ng sinabi ko, magnanakaw lang ang galit sa COA. Ni minsan hindi nagkaroon ng galit ang administrasyon ni PNoy sa COA. Gobyerno lang ni Duterte ang galit na galit sa COA.

Duterte, huwag ka nang magturo. Buking na buking ka na. Huwag ka nang mandamay at mag-akusa sa iba ng mga pinaglipasan nang mga isyu at luma nang mga paratang na hindi naman sinampa sa mga korte dahil nga wala namang basehan.

Malinaw na taon-taon nilalabas naming mga Gabinete ni PNoy ang aming SALN. Malinaw sa aming mga SALN na hindi namin pinagkakitaan ang gobyerno. Ikaw kailan mo ilalabas ang iyong SALN?

(Access the handwritten version of Dispatch from Crame No. 1131, here: https://issuu.com/senatorleilam.delima/docs/dispatch_from_crame_no._1131)