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By Prince Golez, Manila Reporter
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MANILA – “Totally insane and outrageously ridiculous.”
Sen. Leila de Lima’s words referred to recent allegations concerning her involvement in the release of three suspected Abu Sayyaf members in 2013.
“It only exposes at how this administration could bend so low at digging in the imagined dirt that it fails to see the public laughing at them,” said de Lima who has also tagged by President Rodrigo Duterte to the drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison.
On Nov. 18, Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie and Abner Salahil Tahil charged de Lima and four others before the Office of the Ombudsman for violating Section 4 of Republic Act 10168, or the “Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012 for “financing the release” of Mohammad Sali Said, Jul Ahmad Ahadi, and Robin Sahiyal.
“There’s a need to expose itong evidence that we have and witness para at least ma-expose at ma-dismantle ‘yung mga taong nagbibigay ng aid sa mga terrorists like Abu Sayyaf,” said Tulawie.
De Lima, who served as secretary of the Justice department before she joined the Senate, said she is already “exhausted” and “disgusted” by the constant attacks to discredit her.
“Sadly, some hapless pawns are more than willing to play in this vicious game of political persecution and character assassination,” the newbie senator said.
She also said that “manufactured lies” and “malicious conjectures” are being thrown against her to divert the public from the administration’s “incompetence and recklessness to address more pressing national problems.”
The other accused were former Sulu governor Abdusakur Tan, Atty. Mehol Sadain, Atty. Wendell Sotto, and Ediwasif Baddiri./PN
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