ISYU LABAN KAY GONGDI, MISFIT SARA

SA MGA kandidato para senador, napupusuan ko ang anim – Heidi Mendoza, France Castro, Arlene Brosas, Teddy Casino, Bam Aquino, at Kiko Pangilinan. Balak kong idagdag si Luke Espiritu at Leody de Guzman upang mabigyan ng tinig ang mga manggagawa. Gusto kong subukan si Heidi at ang tatlong iba. Batid kong magagaling sila. Si Bam at Kiko, kilala natin sila.

Wala akong ihahalal sinuman sa tiket ng sindikatong Inferior Davao at tiket ng administrasyon. Nasa kanila ang mga mamamatay tao, mandarambong, balimbing, at mga walang itinatagong galing (o bobo). Hindi ko sila masikmura. Hindi ko matiis.

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DALAWANG malaking kaganapan ang nangyari sa nakalipas na linggo. Una, inirekomenda ng QuadComm noong Miyerkoles na sampahan ng crimes against humanity si Gongdi, Bato, Bong Go, at dalawang dating hepe ng PNP. Ikalawa, isinampa noong Huwebes sa Camara de Representante ang pangatlong impeachment complaint laban kay Misfit Sara.

Binasa noong Huwebes ni Surigao del Norte Kin. Robert Ace Barbers sa huling plenary session ng Camara sa taong ito ang partial report ng QuadComm kung saan humingi ang supercommittee ng agarang pagsasampa ng sakdal na crimes against humanity laban kay Gongdi, Bato, Bong Go, Hen. Oscar Albayalde, at Hen. Debold Sinas. Hininging ibatay ang sakdal sa RA 9841, ang batas kontra crimes against humanity, genocide, at paglabag sa international humanitarian law.

Pakibasa: In his speech, Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, chair of the House Committee on Illegal Drugs, bared the QuadComm recommendation to file crimes against humanity charges against Gongdi, Bato, and Bong Go, and ex-PNP chiefs Gen. Oscar Albayalde and Debold Sinas in connection with the bloody but failed war on drugs, which Gongdi pursued during his term of office. Barbers invoked RA 9851 as the domestic law that governs charges of crimes against humanity and other violations of the international humanitarian law, and genocide.

Some netizens raised the question of what would happen to the current crimes against humanity charges, which Gongdi and his cohorts face at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The charges have gone a long way because it was filed by Sonny Trillanes and his Magdalo group in 2017 at a time when Gongdi was strongest and nobody would dare to go against what he wished, including his ill-fated war on drugs. It has reached the stage of “formal investigation,” where Gongdi could be arrested and jailed.

The answer was given by Leila de Lima in one of her appearances at QuadComm public hearings. Since Gongdi’s case in the ICC has progressed so much, the PHL government has the power under RA 9851 to allow the ICC to proceed with the charges against ICC. De Lima mentioned Section 17 of RA 9851 as most pertinent in connection with QuadComm’s recommendation file charges against Gongdi before the local court.

Section 17 of RA 9851 reads: “In the interest of justice, the relevant Philippine authorities may dispense with the investigation or prosecution of a crime punishable under this Act if another court or international tribunal is already conducting the investigation or undertaking the prosecution of such crime. Instead, the authorities may surrender or extradite suspected or accused persons in the Philippines to the appropriate international court, if any, or to another State pursuant to the applicable extradition laws and treaties.”

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ISINAMPA noong Huwebes sa Kamara ang pangatlong impeachment complaint laban kay Sara ng pinagsamang pangkat ng religious groups, pari, NGOs, abugado at iba pa. Inakusahan si Sara sa reklamo ng culpable violation of the Constitution, bribery, corruption, betrayal of public trust.

Binanggit bilang batayan sa reklamo ang pagkakaroon ng 11,246 ghost employees in Davao City, ang pagkakaroon ng 19,000 ghost/undocumented scholars sa DepEd, at 1,322 OVP confidential fund recipients na walang birth records. “ This is a systematic fraud,” ayn sa reklamo

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POST KO ito: IN MY second book, “BUMPS Fifty Years of Dictatorship and Democracy in the Philippines (1972-2022),” I wrote the transaction between the Salims, through MVP, and the Cojuangcos, through Antonio, about the sale of PLDT to the Indonesian conglomerate. Then President Erap Estrada, in an exercise of greed, used his presidential powers to facilitate the sale in five months. I also wrote about the participation of Mark Jimenez as the fixer of the PLDT sell-out. Excerpts:

“The deal would not have been consummated without the participation of Jimenez, who served as the broker. It was Jimenez, who suggested that Estrada would get a higher commission from the deal. Estrada did not waste time to acknowledge Jimenez’s capacity to broker a deal. He empowered him to talk to Pangilinan and consummate the deal. It was an astounding success and Jimenez, now deceased, was said to have closed the deal to Estrada’s satisfaction. Because of his feat, Estrada described him as a ‘corporate genius.’

This was an issue of unimaginable horror not only in the business community but the nation as well. Estrada’s concept of what could be regarded as a corporate genius was a mere fixer, or broker, if a kinder word is used. Jimenez did nothing extraordinary in business like the way Henry Ford made automobiles, then a nascent technology, affordable for ordinary wage earners. He was no Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, who ushered the world into the modern digital era. Jimenez was no Andrew Carnegie either, who ruined his fiercest competitors to become the richest man on earth of his time, but gave his fabulous wealth to become ‘the father of modern philanthropy.’ Estrada’s limited mind could only confer the word ‘genius’ to a fixer.

Jimenez did not put up something extraordinary to be described as somebody, who performed a feat, or something pivotal in the economy. He brokered an important deal for the existence of the Salims because they had to transfer their wealth away from the prying eyes of Indonesian authorities, who wanted them to pay their debts, and Estrada, who wanted to earn a fortune out of his presidential powers at that time. It was the selfish side of Estrada to settle for the money, which, from all indications, constituted what could be regarded as a lump sum for his retirement when he bowed out of the presidency in 2004. Estrada never denied the deal, although he denied he engineered it and earned a fat commission from it.”