Vice President Sara Duterte said on Tuesday that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should be held accountable for the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte by the International Criminal Court.

Hours after the ex-president's arrest, he was brought to The Hague in the Netherlands and turned over to the ICC for crimes against humanity related to his war on drugs.

"Yes, dapat, because number 1, dili to mahitabo ang pag-kidnap kay President Duterte diri sa atoang nasod kung wala toy approval sa presidente," she said in a media interview in Kidapawan City, Cotabato.

(Yes, dapat, because number 1, hindi mangyayari ang pag-kidnap kay President Duterte dito sa ating bansa kung walang approval yon ng presidente.)

Duterte believes that the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines would not have taken action to arrest the former president without a go-signal from their leaders.

“Dapat siyang managot kasi that is an impeachable offense. It's a culpable violation of the constitution and betrayal of public trust because they allowed a foreign jurisdiction to intervene in our national sovereignty," she said.

"We did not have any obligation to cooperate with the ICC because we already filed our petition to withdraw from the ICC, and walang jurisdiction ang ICC para gumawa ng investigation kay Pres. Duterte o kahit kanino man," she added.

Duterte was arrested on March 11  on his arrival from Hong Kong at the request of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as part of its probe into his "war on drugs" that defined his presidency.

The ICC warrant for Duterte's arrest said that as president, the 80-year-old Duterte allegedly created, funded, and armed death squads that carried out murders of purported drug users and dealers.

Duterte on March 14 appeared via video link before ICC judges. He is set to attend a September 23 hearing to confirm the charges against him.