Vice President Sara Duterte yesterday asked why the Presidential Security Command (PSC) has been “eerily quiet” about her documented threats against her and her family as well as personnel of the Office of the Vice President.
Duterte raised the question in a statement she issued a day after the PSC released a statement saying that it has heightened security for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. after the vice president declared that she had contracted someone to kill the chief executive, the first lady, and the House Speaker should anything happen to her.
“Presuming the PSC is still a non-partisan professional organization, why is the command eerily quiet on the documented threats to me, my family and OVP personnel,” Duterte said in a statement.
“The silence is then proof that the inclusion of VPSPG in the PSC is clearly to undermine my security and nothing else,” she said, referring to the Vice President Security and Protection Group (VPSPG).
The VPSPG was a separate unit created on June 20, 2022 by virtue of the Department of National Defense (DND) Order signed by Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Duterte said, noting that the move was meant to “distinguish the security of the Vice President and make it independent.”
Duterte said that after her resignation as Education Secretary, “the unit was unceremoniously assigned as a unit under the Presidential Security Command.”
“The security of the Vice President is now under the control of the PSC and as a consequence influenced by the decisions of the Office of the President,” Duterte said.
The National Bureau of Investigation has denied receiving intelligence information that Duterte and her family are in danger.
