Erap camp: Show yourself, Koala Boy 05/25/2010

Erap camp: Show yourself, Koala Boy

05/25/2010 The camp of former President Joseph Estrada yesterday reiterated its call made at at a media forum to the masked man dubbed “Koala Bear” to reveal his identity and substantiate his claims. “We are appealing to this masked man to reveal his identity because until he does, even if his claims might have some merit, he fails to have any credibility so his allegations are extremely diminished,” Estrada spokesman Margaux Salcedo said.  Salcedo also appealed to Koala Bear to substantiate his allegations: “These are serious allegations that affect the credibility of the entire automated electoral process. If he can substantiate his claims, sure, he has the potential of saving the country from incorrect canvassing of votes and should come out now.  Meanwhile, in a statement issued to the media yesterday, Department of Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno who is alleged to have had a conversation on vote rigging with Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer, denied such conversation detailing attempts to engage in election fraud activities in the recently concluded 2010 Elections was ever made. He scored the “crude attempt to smear the elections, like the koala bear witness episode” that he said is part of an attempt by irresponsible and criminal minded people to cause instability, distrust in our institutions, and a declaration of election failure.” He said he believes the 2010 Elections, and the Comelec official tabulations, are and were a true reflection of the people’s will. I will do everything possible under the law to ensure that the elected national and local officials are enabled to exercise the mandate they have received from our voters. Still on the Koala Bear issue, where Rep. Teddy Boy Loscin reportedly named him as being behind this masked man’s whistle blowing,former Environment Secretary Lito Atienza categorically denied he had anything to do with the masked whistleblower who exposed massive vote tampering in the May 10 national elections, and that all he knew about him was what he read and heard in news reports. In a statement, Atienza said Makati Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr., the House suffrage committee chairman, had himself clarified the misimpression made by Locsin that he “seems to know” about the anonymous witness wearing a koala bear mask whose video taped testimony was played at a House hearing last week.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100525hed3.html

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