Garma confirms Duterte offered reward for drug war killings
Retired police colonel Royina Garma directly implicates former president Rodrigo Duterte in the extrajudicial killings committed by the police in the war on drugs.
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00:00Retired police colonel Roina Garma directly implicates former President Rodrigo Duterte
00:06in the extrajudicial killings committed by the police in the war on drugs.
00:11In tears during the House of Representatives Quad Committee hearing on Friday, October
00:1511, Garma says Duterte called her to a meeting in May 2016.
00:20She says he needed someone capable of implementing the war on drugs on a national scale that
00:25replicates the Davao model.
00:27Garma explains it's a system involving three levels of payment and rewards.
00:32Garma adds she recalled her upperclassman, current National Police Commission commissioner
00:37Edilberto Leonardo, as a perfect fit for Duterte's request.
00:42Garma also describes the role of then-Duterte aide Bong Go, who included the incidents in
00:47his weekly report and requested for refunds.
00:49I am afraid of my life in the chair.