Editorial
The accuser
THE witness cum accuser said he saw President Duterte, then still Davao City mayor, pump “about 200 bullets” into a dying man.
“Duterte consumed two magazines of an Uzi in finishing off the guy,” he said in Tagalog.
When Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano asked him if he knew how many bullets does one magazine have, the accuser said, “I don’t know.”
“Have you seen an Uzi?”
“No, sir,” said the man.
The man accused Paolo, Mr. Duterte’s son and who is now Davao City vice mayor, of being a drug addict.
When Cayetano asked him if he had seen Paolo take illegal drugs, the accuser said, “No, sir.”
After the accuser said he pushed a man into a river for a crocodile to eat, Sen. Sonny Angara asked him: “Did you see the crocodile eat the man?”
The accuser said, “No, sir.”
Thursday’s Senate session was a continuation of the Justice Committee’s probe of alleged extra-judicial killings by police that is being chaired by Sen. Leila de Lima.
When Sen. Tito Sotto asked the accuser who brought him to the Senate to expose President Duterte’s alleged Davao Death Squad which the accuser claimed he had been a part of for 24 years, he refused to identify the person.
He admitted having killed “almost 1,000 persons.”
Saying he is now hiding in San Fabian, Pangasinan, after leaving the Witness Protection Program, the accuser said he confessed his sins to a monsignor “because my conscience bothered me.”
When asked by Sen. Win Gatchalian about his education, the accuser, who claimed to have killed many people through strangulation using a rope, said, “Grade One, sir.”
By presenting a person to badmouth, hurl incredibly unbelievable murderous charges against, no less than the President of the Republic—in public at that—De Lima had, in effect, cheapened the august halls of the Senate, if not her own self. What a shame.
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