This is utterly ridiculous. Among the significant legacies left by the Duterte administration to the President Bongbong Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte fledgling government was a country that was practically free of armed insurgents — the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed component, the New People’s Army (NPA).
For some inconceivable reasons the legal fronts of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the Makabayan Partylists, found shelter in the House of Romualdez.
They were conscripted by the House leadership who made them the main attack dogs of Romualdez in his agenda to eradicate the Dutertes, specifically VP Inday Sara. Even street parliamentarian Teddy Casiño was ebullient with the turn of events. It was their last dose for survival.
As Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros declared, “While Vice President Sara Duterte is in power, the threat of a full-blown Duterte comeback is still a very real and present danger.” Thus, the plot to demonize the VP which did not spare her aging father, citizen Rodrigo Duterte.
With nothing to indict VP Sara, the QuadComm was created solely to hound the VP and try her in public over a confidential fund of P125 million.
The QuadComm subsumed the power of the Supreme Court and the Ombudsman, only it clothed itself with power akin to the kangaroo court of the CPP/NPA.
The QuadComm too has a convict for a member who cited Zuleika Lopez, the chief of staff in the Office of the Vice President, for not giving QuadComm members the answers they wanted to hear.
Lopez was cited in contempt by Rep. France Castro for what the latter claimed was “undue interference.” The convict who is out on bail, along with the rest of the QuadComm prosecutors, even wanted Lopez to be transferred to the correctional facility for women.
Castro has a gripe against the Duterte leadership. PRRD created the NTF-ELCAC, an adjunct to the AFP, which had a successful campaign against the CPP/NPA that led to its demise. Castro is particularly mad at VP Sara for it was during the latter’s term as mayor that the Haran CPP/NPA indoctrination joint inside the UCCP compound in Davao City, which paraded as a safeway house for traveling Lumad or IPs, was raided. Haran was a teach-in center for communist ideology espoused by Jose Ma. Sison.
Davao City was the first area in the country the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) declared insurgent free followed by the entire Davao Region which used to be the CPP/NPA terrorists’ stronghold.
In the next incredible scenario, President BBM revived the peace talks with the terrorist CPP/NPA which was already in a state of rigor mortis. For incomprehensible reasons he even issued a general amnesty to the terrorists. The VP who had been in the fight against the CPP/NPA called the peace negotiations a deal with the devil.
Sara’s impeachment therefore comes as no surprise. It’s a plot concocted by the Palace, the HoR and kibitzers who look like Leila de Lima who’s lawyering for the left and the one who is called “sundalong kanin.”
On the part of Ombudsman Samuel Martires, he enunciated that “as far as we are concerned right now, we have not seen any acts of the Vice President that we should investigate. We do not find anything that violated, one, the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, or of any offenses in the Revised Penal Code that is in relation to the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.”
That’s the Ombudsman speaking. Romualdez and his cousin, Bongbong, meantime had to sell the Central Bank’s gold reserves for P129 billion; transferred to the national treasury P60 billion of PhilHealth members’ money; withdrew P250 billion from the Maharlika Fund, P62.5 billion from GSIS members’ fund, P62.5-billion from SSS members’ fund, and P62.5 billion from DBP deposits, for a grand total of P689 billion. Never mind the P1.3-trillion spent on 5,500 ghost flood control projects.
When you consider all these, you wonder why Romualdez and Marcos and their ilk are crucifying VP Sara over the P125-million confidential fund.
Color it red or call it greed, in the end it’s political survival.