Wrap up jueteng probe — Angara
By Angie M. Rosales and Benjamin B. Pulta 10/08/2010Unless a witness is willing to come out to attest to the alleged jueteng payoffs to high officials in government, the Senate should seriously consider terminating its ongoing investigation.
Sen. Edgardo Angara yesterday made the call as he expressed pessimism on whether his colleagues will be able to extract truth over purported jueteng payola scandal in the absence of a testimony from a credible witness.
He said they must break the public perception that legislators “keep on launching investigations but never get around to finishing them.”
“Otherwise, our credibility and authority are diminished in the eyes of the public to whom we owe our mandate,” he stressed.
“Bribery is one of the most difficult crimes to prove unless there is a credible whistleblower
who would testify. In this case, not just any ordinary man has come forward, but a man of the cloth, an archbishop. That, in large part, already speaks about his credibility and that of his claims,” Angara said, referring to retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz, who exposed the latest alleged jueteng scandal.
These accusations are difficult to investigate so the role of witnesses is crucial, he added..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101008hed5.html
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