An emotional Royina Garma requested a chance to address family members of drug war victims before they were excused from the House quad-committee hearing on Friday (October 11), offering them an apology for the "mistakes" that led to deaths under her watch as police director of Cebu City.

The retired police colonel tearfully apologized to Baby Rosales and Raquel Lopez, whose respective sons Angelito and Rabby were killed by Garma's policemen in 2018, after they each gave their testimony at the joint panel's probe into the Duterte administration's war on drugs.

"I am very sorry in behalf of my men na nagkamali sa inyo. I am very sorry. But I cannot control all of them," Garma said.

"Inaamin ko, may nagkakamali... I am sorry to all victims kung hindi ko naimbestigahan isa-isa 'yung case niyo," she added.

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Garma followed her apology with a testimony implicating former President Rodrigo Duterte and then-presidential aide and now-senator Bong Go in a cash reward system for the extrajudicial killings of drug suspects during his term.

She confirmed the assembly of a national task force patterned after the "Davao model," which provided police with financial rewards for killing drug suspects, funding for planned operations, and reimbursement for operational expenses.

Go has denied Garma's allegations, calling her testimony "diversionary tactics to muddle the true issue she is facing – her participation in an alleged murder plot."

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The senator was referring to the 2019 killing of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office board secretary Wesley Barayuga that Garma has been implicated in.

Another incumbent senator, former national police chief Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa," similarly said he "no idea" about a reward system during his tenure as Duterte's drug war implementer.

"During my time as the Chief PNP, I did not engage in a reward system because I had no funds for that," dela Rosa, also a former Davao City police chief, said.

Authorities have acknowledged more than 6,000 deaths in the war on drugs, although human rights groups have higher estimates on the number of people killed in anti-narcotics operations.