Embattled Senator Leila de Lima claimed on Friday that President Rodrigo Duterte was working to kick her out of the Senate, using the executive department and the Congress to achieve his goal, The Manila Times Online reported on Saturday.
“I sometimes wonder how it will end. What will happen to me next? I feel that I’m living by the day with no idea of what will happen to me tomorrow. I feel like I’m a dead woman walking,” the former justice secretary said in a radio interview.
“I know that this is going to be a long and very lonely battle but I never imagined that they would do this to me,” she added.
President Duterte has linked de Lima to illegal drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison and publicly revealed that she had an affairs with her driver-bodyguard, Ronnie Dayan.
The drug allegations led to a House inquiry this week with inmates from the prison implicated in the drug trade and her former subordinates at the National Bureau of Investigation being brought in to testify against her.
De Lima was also ousted as chair of the Senate justice and human rights committee probing Duterte’s link with the Davao Death Squad that killed over 1,000 people in Davao City when he was the mayor.
The ex-justice secretary is also facing two complaints at the Senate ethics committee in connection with her activities when she was justice secretary.