Come home, face the music FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/19/2010

Come home, face the music

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/19/2010 Following news reports quoting Cesar Mancao, government witness in the Dacer-Corbito double murder who had pointed to fugitive Sen. Panfilo Lacson, as the mastermind, saying that he has been receiving pressures and multimillion-peso offers from Lacson’s emissaries to recant his testimony, the office of Lacson sent a media statement quoting the senator as brushing off Mancao’s claim of a bribe and saying that his former aide who had turned against him is now getting “desperate,” after former Senior Supt. Glenn Dumlao “effectively demolished Mancao’s fabricated claims.” Said Lacson: “The fact of the matter is, the court testimony of Glenn Dumlao has effectively demolished Mancao’s fabricated testimony against me. That’s why Mancao and his lawyer are in a desperation mode.” “From the very start, it is easy to comprehend that Mancao is conveniently fabricating these lies to benefit himself. He implicated Senator Lacson so he can get out of prison in the US and go back to the Philippines — all expenses paid at that. And now, he is accusing our camp of trying to bribe him into recanting a testimony which was already shattered in court,” Lacson’s lawyer Alex Avisado Jr. said.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100819com2.html

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