Duterte: ‘I will not submit to the Ombudsman’

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte warned that he would not put himself under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Ombudsman, which will investigate his and his family’s wealth that was acquired allegedly from corrupt activities.

“I will not submit jurisdiction, to [the authority of] the Ombudsman. The Armed Forces, the police, are being charged before the Ombudsman. I myself paid for the bribe. I ask my friends to help out in [bribing the] investigators. All of us had to pay Ombudsman investigators, that’s why I won’t submit to its jurisdiction,” Duterte said in a speech before members of Integrated Bar of the Philippines in his hometown of Davao City on Saturday night.