PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to arrest officials of the Office of the Ombudsman if they refuse to be probed by an “independent” commission.

Still stung by the Ombudsman’s earlier announcement that it would investigate his and his family’s bank transactions, Duterte on Friday threatened to tap the military or the police to force the issue.

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