House serves show-cause order vs de Lima

HOUSE leaders on Thursday served the show-cause order against Sen. Leila de Lima at the Senate, in connection with her alleged attempt to prevent her former bodyguard and lover Ronnie Dayan from appearing before a congressional inquiry on illegal drugs.

Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali, chairman of the House justice committee and Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Fariñas of Ilocos Norte went to the Senate secretary, Lutgardo Barbo, to deliver the document requiring de Lima to answer why she should not be cited for contempt. In last week’s House inquiry, Dayan’s daughter Hanna Mae showed congressmen a text message from de Lima asking her to tell her father not to testify before the House justice committee.