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| Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:20 |
 THEY’RE ready to talk.Marine officers are willing to spill the beans on their former commander-in-chief, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Commandant Maj. Gen. Juancho Sabban yesterday said several senior Marine officers are willing to come out and reveal the alleged irregularities in the 2004 elections that benefited Arroyo. Sabban said he got the assurance from the military officers who were assigned in Lanao del Sur where widespread poll irregularities reportedly occurred in 2004. “I talked to some senior officers who were then commanders of middle level units, and they can attest to what happened,” Sabban told reporters. He said the officers who he refused to identify will only share the information with the Truth Commission, the independent body that will investigate unresolved controversies under the Arroyo administration. Arroyo’s camp has repeatedly denied irregularities during the 2004 elections. The former president however issued a public apology for calling then Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano but denied allegations that she ordered the cheating so she would win. Sabban said some Marine junior officers can corroborate the statements of senior Marine leaders that there was indeed massive poll fraud. “I think if the commander comes out, then obviously those who were there, the junior officers and enlisted personnel, they will also come out and tell what really happened,” he said. Three retired generals – Hermogenes Esperon, Roy Kyamko and Gabriel Habacon – reportedly took part in the cheating to ensure Arroyo’s victory in 2004. The names came out in the controversial “Hello, Garci” tapes — the wiretapped phone conversation between a woman believed to be Arroyo and a man believed to be Garcillano. The military fact-finding panel had cleared Esperon, Kyamko and Habacon in a report that has been kept confidential up to the present. Sabban appealed for the release of the report, dubbed the Mayuga report, named after the five-man panel’s head, retired Navy Vice Adm. Mateo Mayuga. Sabban is confident that the Truth Commission, to be led by retired Chief Justice Hilario Davide, can get to the bottom of what really happened during the 2004 elections. President Benigno Aquino is set to formalize the creation of the Truth Commission this week. |
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I think the Truth Commission which will undertake the investigaation on the issue will be just as fair like as what
Philippine President Noynoy wants it. Equal justice to all.
Mike M. Moreno
Richmond, BC., Canada
Chair- Fil-Am Fil-Can Alliance
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