MANILA, Philippines — The Home of Representatives on Friday ordered the switch of the Workplace of the Vice President (OVP) Undersecretary Zuleika Lopez to the ladies’s jail in Mandaluyong Metropolis.
In a doc despatched by the OVP to reporters, Home committee on good governance and public accountability chair Rep. Joel Chua ordered Home Sergeant-At-Arms Napoleon Taas to switch Lopez to the Ladies’s Correctional Facility.
This got here after the committee held a particular assembly on Friday, the place its members unanimously authorized the switch of Lopez from the Home of Representatives to the ladies’s jail.
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“You might be hereby ordered to impact the switch of Atty. Zuleika T. Lopez. from her detention within the Home of Consultant to the Ladies’s Correctional Facility, Mandaluyong Metropolis, instantly, so ordered,” the order learn.
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Previous to the order, Lopez was within the custody of Congress’s Workplace of the Sergeant-at-Arms after being cited for contempt.
Vice President Sara Duterte, in the meantime, additionally went to the Home of Representatives asserting that she can be staying “indefinitely” at her brother Davao Metropolis 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte’s workplace so she might go to Lopez.