Witnesses on parade
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So-called witnesses having a “tale” to tell against the previous administration have been surfacing in droves, while Justice Secretary Leila de Lima immediately gets all of them into the Witness Protection Program (WPP) and just as quickly presents them before the media.
But just how credible are they, considering the fact that they all face electoral sabotage cases and have been in hiding for the past five years or so?
De Lima the other day presented two witnesses, former election supervisors from Mindanao who surfaced to disclose their knowledge on how the results of the 2007 mid-term elections were said to have been rigged in favor of the senatorial bets of the Arroyo administration.
She presented lawyers Lilian Radam and Yogie Martirizar, both of whom face charges of electoral sabotage but who now claim that they were pressured into signing extra copies of certificates of canvass (CoCs) and statements of votes (SoVs) to manipulate the results of the 2007 elections.
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Source: The Daily Tribune
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