Duterte’s partner Honeylet Avancena said she was seeking buyers for the residence, citing her emotional concerns ever since the Davao mayor was held in a detention centre in The Hague over his charges linked to his war on drugs, in which thousands of purported dealers and users were killed.
“It hurts my chest every time I go inside. I’m the only one who enters now. There are four house helpers, but no master,” Avancena told radio station DZRH.
“We abandoned it after what happened. I cannot sleep there any more because the lawyers asked us to install CCTV even inside the bedroom.”
A “for sale” sign was seen in front of the house over the weekend, but it later disappeared.
Paolo Duterte, the ex-leader’s lawmaker son, said the home was the first his father bought with his own money, and he “doesn’t want to let it go”.
