Amid calls to allow the International Crminal Court (ICC) to conduct an investigation in the country, Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra insisted only the Philippines can conduct investigations into the drug war killings.
The 2020 joint venture agreement forged by suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag with a private company for the transfer of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) to Nueva Ecija did not have the approval of then Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra.
Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra admitted the Bureau of Corrections never informed him during his time as justice secretary that an excavation was made in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) compound in Muntiunlupa City.
Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra expressed doubts over the claim that there were around 6,000 victims of extrajudicial killings over the course of the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs.
Cops exonerated over their involvement in the drug war of former President Rodrigo Duterte are not yet out of the woods. Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said the NBI will investigate all the more than 6,000 cases of drug war killings during the previous administration.
Solicitor General Jose Calida has the qualifications to become chairperson of the Commission on Audit (COA), Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Wednesday (June 29).
Outgoing Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Saturday (June 25) reiterated the stand of President Rodrigo Duterte that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no jurisdiction to conduct an investigation over the killings related to the drug war.
Senator Leila De Lima blasted what she described as the “Pontius Pilate act” of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra in deciding to adopt the position of the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s panel of prosecutors to continue prosecuting her drug cases.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday (June 15) advised members of the National Task Force to end Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to stop “red-tagging” people as members of communist groups.
Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo Guevarra remains firm in his decision to push through with drug charges against detained outgoing Senator Leila De Lima.
