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In a statement issued on Sunday, UP Vice President for Public Affairs Prospero De Vera slammed the spread of a Facebook post which alleged that the UP Board of Regents, the university’s highest policy-making body, has issued a resolution against Duterte.
“In very clear and in no uncertain terms, the university would like to make it known that the Board of Regents has not made any such issuance. There has been no resolution of such nature passed by the Board,” De Vera said.
De Vera said that the post is a “malicious attempt of the individual, or group behind the social media user, to drag the name of the University of the Philippines into partisan political conflict.”
“As the national university, UP is nonpartisan and does not support nor hold adversarial views against any candidate,” he added.
The university has already launched a probe on the matter and hinted that it would pursue legal action against the source of the post.
The fake “Board of Regents Resolution No. 103, Series of 2016” read: “Whereas, Mr. Rodrigo R. Duterte has shown gross incompetence and lack of leadership gross incompetence and lack of leadership in controlling/pacifying his followers who have resorted to bullying one of our students through social media…”
“Resolved as it is hereby resolved that Mr. Rodrido R. Duterte be declared persona non grata of the entire university of the Philippines system,” it said.
Some supporters of the mayor hit Stephen Villena, a UP Los Baños student, on social media, claiming that the student disrespected Duterte by the way he asked questions in a forum last March 11.
Villena and his family received death threats.
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