Former President Rodrigo Duterte is mentally sound while in detention at the Hague although he has lost weight due to loss of appetite, acting Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte said yesterday.
“Any other person that would be in detention would be depressed and you would have trouble eating because you won’t want to eat. You would lose your appetite,” the acting mayor said.
“But cognitively, he’s okay, but he’s not a young person, he’s old,” he said.
The younger Duterte also said he is set to fly to The Netherlands to visit his father.
“What’s being done to him now is very unjust. But, it’s ok. He is still our mayor,” he said.
“I am the acting mayor. He has been mayor here for several years already. Let’s just follow his direction as we have done so in the past. That’s what being a Davaoeño is,” he added.
