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Published August 4, 2021 9:01am
Updated August 4, 2021 10:01am Five members of the House of Representatives have filed a resolution seeking an investigation into OCTA Research, an independent research group that regularly issues projections and warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic. House Resolution 2075, filed August 3, urges the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation to ascertain the credentials and background of OCTA Research. There is a public health and public policy need to ensure the safety and security of the population during this pandemic, and that information being distributed is correct and are not irresponsibly and erroneously published, the five lawmakers said in the resolution.
Published July 29, 2021 9:11am Albay Representative Edcel Lagman and the members of the Makabayan Bloc in the House of Representatives are pushing for an investigation into the killing of two activists in Guinobatan, Albay. House Resolution 2033 urged the chamber’s Committee on Human Rights to issue condemnation and probe, in aid of legislation, the deaths of Jemar Palero and Marlon Naperi. According to the police, the two were killed in a shootout after they fired at policemen who caught them painting an anti-administration slogan hours after President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address last Monday. Human rights groups, however, said the two were unarmed.