At least two (2) high-ranking government officials of the Aquino administration are reportedly lobbying for ex-Governor Zaldy Ampatuan to become a state witness in the Maguindanao massacre.
Lawyer Harry Roque blames Local Government secretary Jessie Robredo and Presidential spokesperson Atty. Ed Lacierda as the ones trying to get the beleaguered Ampatuan closer to the President. Both Cabinet officials issued favorable statements shortly after the news broke of efforts to make Ampatuan a state witness.
Other sources revealed that Peace adviser Teresita Deles and Communications secretary Ricky Carandang are also brokering for Ampatuan, the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Philippine Star reported.
Roque blames politics for this. He says that these officials are doing this for political reasons, given that Maguindanao was the hub of electoral cheating in 2004. Ampatuan claims to know more of the cheating which former president Gloria Arroyo and her husband did in that elections.
This is totally unfair, not just for the remaining grieving relatives of the victims, but to the entire Filipino Nation. This sends a very wrong signal insofar as justice is concerned.
This means that, in this administration, regardless of what you did in the past, if you know something which is discriminating to the former dispensation, you're free to go if you tattle tale them. If course these scums would suddenly turn coat just to save their hides.
Ampatuan is just as guilty as any other. He should face the music. He should not be made as a state witness, for two (2) reasons: first, based on evidence, Ampatuan is clearly a principal to the crime of conspiring to massacre these people and second, his testimony will not be a major cause of the prosecution's case. The case will stand by itself.
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