JUSTICE Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla declared over the weekend that he will personally prohibit prosecutors from the International Criminal Court (ICC) from entering the country to investigate the deaths that occurred during the past administration’s war on drugs.

In an interview with One News, Remulla announced that he will lead them on the first plane back to their country of origin.

“My position is I will meet them so they can take the first plane out. I will tell them to go home. You will do nothing in this country. If you have complaints, file it with us, ” Remulla said.

Remulla maintained that the Philippines has a functioning judicial system and can conduct its own investigation into the alleged unnecessary deaths during the violent campaign against illegal drugs.

He stated that the ICC cannot enter the Philippines to “enforce their own rule of law.”

This statement came after the ICC appeals chamber denied the Philippine government’s plea to suspend the investigation into the Duterte administration’s war on drugs, citing the lack of concrete and clear reasons for the appeal.

Remulla recently challenged the ICC to first arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing the recent arrest warrant issued by the ICC for Putin over the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia, which Moscow has denied.

“The ICC is the ICC, good luck to them, also if they want to arrest Putin, I’d like to see them do that because they’re big on words but let them do it first so we will believe that they can really do what they’re saying,” Remulla said.

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