MANILA, Philippines – Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Wednesday, May 10, became a figure of fun among journalists after he mistakenly used a microphone as a cellular phone when he answered his wife’s call during the weekly Kapihan sa Manila Bay.
Aguirre was answering queries from reporters during the press conference when his cellphone rang. Instead of his mobile phone, he put a mic on his ear to answer his wife’s call.
“Tawag nang tawag ka, pinagtatawanan tuloy ako dito [You keep on calling that’s why they’re laughing at me here],” Aguirre told his wife as journalists guffawed over his blunder.
This wasn’t the first time that Aguirre elicited an ear-related laughter from the public.
In 2012, Aguirre, then a volunteer prosecutor-lawyer, cupped his ears with his hands while Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago was assailing lawmaker-prosecutors during the Senate impeachment trial of then Chief Justice Renato Corona.
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