But on Wednesday Yasay faced the commission again and was grilled over documents that showed he obtained US citizenship in 1986. The documents also showed Yasay renounced the American citizenship before the US embassy in Manila days before his appointment as foreign secretary. Yasay insisted he never lied about his citizenship, but apologized for “inadvertently misleading” the commission. However when asked whether Yasay had been effectively sacked, and if this was immediate, Yasay’s spokesman said via text message: “That’s what we’re trying to determine”. The revelations that Yasay, Duterte’s dormitory roommate at university decades ago, had US citizenship are ironic given the president’s repeated anti-American tirades.

Source: Manila Times March 08, 2017 09:06 UTC