NBI: No info on threats vs VP Sara Duterte

The National Bureau of Investigation said Monday that they did not receive any information about the supposed threats against Vice President Sara Duterte.

''On the part of the NBI, hindi kami nakakatanggap ng any information regarding the threat on the life of the Vice President,'' NBI director Jaime Santiago said during a Palace press briefing.

[On the part of the NBI, we have not received any information on the threat against the life of the Vice President.]

Santiago also said the NBI has not received any information about Duterte's claim that one of her security personnel had attempted to take her life.

''Parang wala kaming natanggap na ganyan na sinabi niya na one of her security aide, remember that the Vice President, even the Vice President is being protected by our Presidential Security Command,'' Santiago said.

(We haven't received any information about her claim on one of her security aide, remember that the Vice President, even the Vice President is being protected by our Presidential Security Command.)

Duterte made an assassination statement against President Ferdinand ''Bongbong'' Marcos Jr., First Lady Louise ''Liza'' Araneta-Marcos, and Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez as she slammed the House of Representatives' order to transfer Atty. Zuleika Lopez, her chief of staff, from the House detention facility to the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City.

Lopez was ordered detained at the lower chamber after she was cited in contempt for her supposed "undue interference" in the House’s investigation into the confidential funds of offices held by Duterte.

Duterte said she has already spoken to someone to kill the First Couple and Romualdez if she was to be slain, saying that there were actual threats to her life as well.

She later clarified that her statement was "not a threat," adding that she only wanted to highlight the alleged threat to her security.

"Hindi naman yata mahina 'yung volume noong Zoom press conference. Sinabi ko, 'Kung mamatay ako.' Ibig sabihin in the first place, meron nang threat sa akin (I don't think the volume was low during the Zoom press conference. I said, 'If I die.' That means in the first place, there was a threat against me). But they simply do not care that I am also concerned about my security because I hear things," Duterte said in a ''24 Oras Weekend'' report by Jonathan Andal. — RSJ, GMA Integrated News