By Mortz C. Ortigoza
If Senator Leila de Lima cited “human frailties” in committing the
criminal case of concubinage when she had illicit relationship with her married driver, “human
frailties” could be cited why government officials commit corruption, a malady
since time immemorial.
If dangerous drug pushers mended their ways and avoid narcotics
because they are being assassinated, I think assassination would be the
deterrence for government officials to shun corruption.
BRIBERY.Bureau of Immigration officials Al Argosino and Mike Robles hold P30 million out of the P50-million alleged bribe money from Gambling TycoonJack Lam on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 16 days after they received it in a restaurant last November 27, 2016. PHOTO CREDIT: mb.com.ph |
Remember two top officials in the executive branch were
ambushed to death recently.
How many government officials would die in assassination because
of their insatiable greed to pocket public funds?
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Son of a gun, the axiom in Filipino “Ang kapwa magnanakaw ay galit
sa kapwa magnanakaw” has a grain of truth among beleaguered officials of the
Bureau of Immigration (BI) who were accused by their briber to have received
P50 million.
Retired police colonel Wally Sombero said he gave P50 million to
BI Deputy Commissioners Al
Argosino and Michael Robles in exchanged of the release of the 600 of the 1,316
Chinese nationals detained at the BI.
These chinks worked at the 300-hectare Fontana Leisure
Parks and Casino in Clark, Pampanga of gambling tycoon Jack Lam without
working permits for aliens.
The P50 million pay- off was recorded by the security cameras at
the second floor and the cameras set up by the men of BI Intelligence
Chief Charles Calima at the parking lot
of the of City of Dreams in Paranaque.
Calima, a former police general did not trust Argosino and Robles in the transaction, thus he did not only video recorded them in the
consummation of the crime, but even attached an audio recording
inside the dress of Sombero, a retired police colonel.
One of the paper bags, reports said, that contained the ten million pesos “exploded” due to the weight of the bills inside.
BI Intelligence Chief
Calima was dragged on this bribery scandal because he told the duo that their
transaction with Sombero was recorded. To keep the act from exploding before the public, Argosino
and Robles gave P18 million to Calima while P2 million went to Colonel
Sombero.
Despite the division of loot, the bribery was exposed because the two
BI Undersecretaries asked for another P50 million thus Sombero divulged the
initial buy out to Inquirer columnist Ramon Tulfo.
“We want to have the opportunity to see the extent of corruption
at the Bureau of Immigration,” Argosino said in a press conference that they received the monies
because they were building a case against Macau business tycoon Jack Lam.
What?
Argosino was probably citing “a case build up crap” because he and
Robles, who were both lawyers, were exposed almost two weeks after they received
the monies.
If your intention Mr. Argosino was pure, you had already entrapped Sombero
after he gave the P50 million at the City of Dreams.
Argosino and Robles were fraternity brothers of President Rodrigo
Duterte while Calima was the appointee of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre.
The scandal that ensued at the BI only shows that despite the
“incorruptibility” of the president of the Philippines, it does not mean that
his appointees at the government are as clean as a whistle.
Several if not many of those high ranking officials he plucked to the present
dispensation have corruption issues in the past.
Who was that ambassador the president appointed who had
strings of corruption issues? His allies in the last presidential election
emphatically denied that this person was not part of his presidential campaign team.
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Leila de Lima received last Monday a fete as one of the 100 Foreign
Policy Global Thinkers awardees in the United States.
She was included in the category "Challengers" and was
honored as a global thinker for "standing up to an extremist leader”
like Duterte.
"I'd like to think it's because of my stance against the
extra judicial killings and other policies ng ating kasalukuyang administrasyon
(of our current administration)," De Lima declared.
So Leila now is a human rights “hero”? I want to puke hearing her
received the Foreign Policy award and moralized: "Napaka-deplorable po ng
sitwasyon natin sa Pilipinas, hinggil sa usapin ng karapatang pantao," she
said. "Walang katapusan, araw-araw na pinapatay in the name of the war on
drugs... Talaga pong tinutukan natin from day 1."
Holy Casserole and Guacamole, de Lima’s moralizing when she was
the epitome of sexual immorality in the Philippines when she confessed in a TV
program that she had an affair with a driver-body Ronnie Dayan.
The driver even told Congress that she, when she was the country’s
Justice Secretary, had "pinag-uubos niya na kami (sexual relationship?) with her other security details.
Not to mention that during her stint as Secretary at the Justice Department, narcotics trading in the national penitentiary proliferated like crazy. Dayan and the drug lord prisoners there fingered her in public hearings to be their protector and recipient of their bribes.
Not to mention that during her stint as Secretary at the Justice Department, narcotics trading in the national penitentiary proliferated like crazy. Dayan and the drug lord prisoners there fingered her in public hearings to be their protector and recipient of their bribes.
“What is happening to our country, general? To quote then Vice
President Emmanuel Pelaez posing to then Quezon City Police Director General
Tomas Karingal after he (Pelaez) was ambushed in the same city.
Do we have a dearth of human rights champs that we have to settle
for a Leila de Lima, son of a gun a senator of the Republic, leading the moral
crusade against the spate of killings in our country.
What happens to our country, my dear Procopio?
An immoral senator leads the moral fight for us in our country.
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Ahmede Jonathen The government have to confiscate the money from their bank accounts to fund the rehabilitations and the government drug enforcement.
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