Fear has forced a lone witness against the so-called Davao Death Squad (DDS) to leave the government’s Witness Protection Program (WWP), sending investigation of the group and its supposed links to President Rodrigo Duterte in limbo, Sen. Leila de Lima said on Friday.

De Lima, in an interview, said the self-confessed hitman of the DDS who was admitted to the WPP last year voluntarily left the program weeks before the May 9 presidential elections.

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