RETIRED Lt. Col. Royina Garma kept silent for 32 seconds when first asked if she was one of the implementers of the bloody drug war in Davao City when Rodrigo Duterte was mayor there and she was a police station commander.

When Kabataan party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel repeated his question, upon the request of the House quad committee chair Robert Ace Barbers for clarification, the beleaguered Garma responded, "Yes, Mr. Chair."

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