“Right from the start, it was already evident Enrile, Estrada and Revilla were targeted for political destruction by the yellow regime.”

Right from the start, it was already evident the three then opposition senators, namely, Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada and Ramon “Bong” Revilla—whom the yellow president and his devoted aides, namely, then Justice chief Leila de Lima, then Commission on Audit chair Grace Pulido Tan and the outgoing Ombudsman, the infamous Conchita Carpio Morales—were targeted for political destruction by the yellow regime.

And to ensure the three then opposition senators were to be seen publicly and judged guilty even before being indicted by Morales, assisted by De Lima and, of course, the yellow media, they were tried and convicted by publicity.

The frame-up was too evident to be missed. De Lima, who today cries for justice over her detention, produced clearly coached witnesses led by the certified perjurer Benhur Luy and at least two of his associates, also coached, before the Senate blue ribbon committee, to publicly frame the three senators on plunder.

The infamous Ombudsman, known for her brand of selective justice, quickly recommended Benhur Luy and his co-workers as state witnesses, granting them immunity. The courts accepted them as government witnesses.

Yet it was clear that Luy was lying through his teeth as were all the other witnesses, together with Ruby Tuason, and not just De Lima and Morales, but also the prosecutors, one of whom is said to have been promoted as judge in a province, Joefferson Toribio.

What kind of investigators, prosecutors, Ombudsman and Justice chief do Filipinos have, for them to get together and frame the three political foes of the yellow president for a crime they did not commit?

For one following the hearings of the court cases against the three senators, it was much too clear that state witness Luy and the other government witnesses given immunity were coached, yet when they were placed under cross-examination by the defense, they failed to keep up with their coached versions, and all they could say was that they no longer remember dates.

What was condemnable behavior from the prosecutors, Morales and De Lima, is the fact that Luy was stealing money in the millions from the senators’ pork barrel allocations, forging the endorsement papers and pointing to the senators as having received the millions in so-called kickbacks. And even when bank deposits in Luy’s name, his parents and siblings’ contained hundreds of millions, along with the many properties he bought, as well as all his trips abroad with his parents, he gets immunity for his false testimony?

The Ombudsman, De Lima and definitely the prosecutors were aware of these criminal acts surrounding Luy and their other witnesses, including Ruby Tuason, whom De Lima’s justice aides coached in the US and even supplied her with manufactured evidence.

Even the claimed hard disc drive of Luy that he said he copied from Janet Lim Napoles’ computer held fake information as proved in court by the defense counsels.

The acts committed by the prosecutors, the Ombudsman, De Lima and her then NBI agents are condemnable criminal acts — making deals with thieves and perjurers and manufacturing evidence, all to politically destroy Enrile, Estrada and Revilla as they posed an electoral threat to the yellow president and his Liberal Party. They should never have been done to the accused senators who were not only subjected to public persecution, prejudged as guilty, and punished, but who should have been presumed innocent.

These are the same people who are part of the justice system. Yet they themselves commit horrendous acts of clear injustice, knowing those they accuse and prosecute are innocent of the charges lodged against them and have liars and thieves with clearly manufactured evidence as witnesses.

But in the end, truth prevails, as one government witness, Marina Sula, testified to her having been coached to testify against Bong Revilla, who has been in detention for over four years.

Sula also testified falsely against two other senators, Enrile and Estrada, on their respective cases of alleged plunder. That she lied against Revilla also means that she testified falsely against the two other then opposition senators.

The lawyers of Revilla plan to ask the Sandiganbayan First Division to drop Luy from the witness protection program and revoke his immunity.

Luy should have been dropped a long time ago. The court knew Luy to be a confirmed perjurer, as proved by the dismissal of his serious illegal detention case against Napoles, where it was finally established that Luy had perjured himself.

It will be a great injustice for the Sandiganbayan justices to insist on keeping Luy as a government witness when the evidence clearly points to Luy not only being a coached witness but also a manufacturer of fake evidence.