Davao City vice mayor Rodrigo Duterte has raised to a higher level his defense of daughter Mayor Sara Duterte, by challenging to a debate members of an association of court sheriffs, which filed assault and abuse of power charges against the lady mayor, in connection with her punching of court sheriff Abe Andres on July 1.

This developed as media reported that a group of sheriffs in Davao City  insisted that no law was violated in the serving of a writ of demolition to illegal settlers in Agdao district on July 1 that saw court sheriff Abe Andres being punched by Mayor Sara Duterte.

“The state of the weather at that time is still questionable. It will still depend if Agdao has been placed under the state of calamity,” Sheriffs Confederation of the Philippines (Scophil) Davao chapter president Sergio Tupas said when asked to comment on the provision of the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (Udha) that requires good weather for a court-ordered demolition to be implemented.