“Know who your true friends are,” Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio warned Thursday in a video posted on her Facebook account.
The VP uploaded the video — simply captioned “Pahayag” (Filipino for “statement”) —after the House of Representatives removed confidential funds allotted to the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Education, which she also heads.
In one part of the video, Duterte-Carpio said in Filipino: “Don’t take part in any sort of oppression. Instead, in times of difficulty, observe and know who your true friends are beside you. Everything in this world has its right time.”
She had earlier released a written statement mentioning her proposed confidential funds. The Vice President then followed up the video with comments about “true friends.”
Duterte-Carpio also recited, again in Filipino, a Bible verse from the Book of Ecclesiastes 3:1 to 8, on “a time to sow and a time to reap.”