Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo “Pulong” Duterte answered the question of the veteran investigative journalist Raissa Robles if there’s a member of the Presidential family already visited the Marawi evacuees.
In his lengthy Tagalog post, Pulong explained that Marawi evacuees only needed medicines, money, food and care. Duterte explained that Maranao people didn’t need politicians to visit them and use evacuees just to gain popularity.
“Ang kailangan po ng mga bakwit ng Marawi ay tulong pinansyal, medikal, pagkain, pakikiramay at pakikiisa; at hindi po isang Pulitiko na magagamit lamang ang sitwasyon ng ating mga kapatid na Maranaw sa pampulitikang ambisyon.”
Pulong admitted that they didn’t personally visited the Marawi evacuees and they only sent help for the bakwits without informing the public.
“Minarapat na po naming hindi na pumunta pa sa mga bakwit at nagpaabot na lamang kami ng aming tulong sa paraan na hindi na po kinakailangan pang ipaalam sa iyo, sa media, at buong mundo.”
The Vice Mayor listed down how Davao City helped the victims of Marawi City crisis without informing the media.
“Hindi na po lingid sa kaalaman ng nakararami na ang Davao City, kahit pa man nauna nang binatikos matapos ang Martial Law, ay tumanggap po ng daan-daang indibidwal mula sa Lanao del Sur at Marawi” Duterte wrote.
Pulong also explained that the goods for the Marawi Siege victims came from the people of Davao and they didn’t took any credit for it like putting their names on the relief goods.
“Ang tulong po namin ay hindi lang mula sa aming pamilya kundi ng buong siyudad ng Davao. Hindi nyo po maririnig o mababasa na sa bawat tulong namin ay mula kina DUTERTE kundi mula po sa mamamayan ng Davao.” Duterte explained.
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Pulong said that publicity gave him and his family a goosebumps because they don’t really like helping people in front of cameras, not like the other politicians who admired by Raissa Robles who always carrying a photographer to took a photo of their movements and always tweeting what they did for the people.
“Mula pa po sa aming ama, Mayor Rody at kaming mga anak nya ay kung pwede lamang ay iiwas at iiwas sa media o sa ano mang mga photo-ops na nakakapangilabot. Hindi po kasi kami kagaya ng mga idol ninyong Pulitiko na sa lahat ng kilos ay kailangan sinusundan ng media, kailangang may picture sa bawat kilos, kailangang naka-tweet.” Duterte said.
“Ang importante lamang po sa amin ay napaabot namin ang aming tulong,” he added.
In the last part of his post, Pulong Duterte asked Raissa Robles: “Kayo po, mukhang ang dami ninyong time sa Twitter, may time ba kayo para pumunta sa mga bakwit ng Marawi?”
Duterte said that Robles may only kept yakking on social media, but haven’t done anything for the evacuees from Marawi City.
“Baka naman ngawa lang din kayo ng ngawa sa social media, batikos nang batikos sa pamilyang Duterte at sa administrasyon, pero wala rin naman nagawa para sa mga bakwit? Kung may nagawa kayo, kung nakatulong, salamat po” Duterte told Robles.
He suggested to Raissa Robles that instead of cliticising the government, help the victims of the Marawi siege by praying for their safety. Pulong also suggested that Robles may visiting the evacuees or maybe temporarily adopting some of them.
“Sana po ay bigyan nyo po ang sarili nyo ng kaunting pabor — mag-pray po kayo. At imbis na tira ng tira sa administrasyong Duterte, pumunta rin kayo sa mga bakwit ng Marawi. O di kaya ay tumanggap ng bakwit mula sa Marawi.” Duterte said.
His sister Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte also slammed Raissa Robles for her tweets questioning how the Presidential family helped the victims of Marawi siege.
“Nagpadala man ang Davao City LGU ng relief goods sa Iligan wala naman kami obligasyon na ipaalam sa iyo yun.” Inday Sara said in her post.
Because of the response of the two powerful politicians in Davao against the tweet of Raissa Robles, the social media account of the investigative journalist was swarmed by criticisms from the Duterte supporters.
Has any other member of Leni's familh gone to any evacuation center where Marawi families went? Oh wait, Jillian Robredo is in Spain.
— Pulgas De Fruta (@Chopongkskie) July 13, 2017
Oh wait, the other one is in Harvard. 😂😂😂
— PowlRuwinsEv (@Pol_DeMesa) July 13, 2017
Some even labeled her as a ‘keyboard/armchair journalist”
Investigative journalist pero keyboard/armchair journalist lang pala. Kasing level lang natin si Veteran
— PowlRuwinsEv (@Pol_DeMesa) July 13, 2017
A netizen even asked if a member of the Robles family visited the evacuees from Marawi City as response to the question of the investigative journalist.
Has any other member of the Robles family gone to any evacuation center where Marawi families went? Trying to find links. Thanks.
— Rhex Gomez (@RhexGomez) July 13, 2017
They even posted the response of Mayor Inday Sara Duterte on Robles’ tweet.
Ayan po sagot ni Inday Sara. Care to answer? pic.twitter.com/1VgZAXwQPH
— Buko Juice (@billyjasuncion) July 13, 2017
Source: Vice Mayor Pulong Duterte – Official
