Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said on Friday that Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is “proving to be a good script writer” after his allegation to Aguirre of “setting the stage” to absolve Kenneth Dong in shabu mess.
“Senator Trillanes is already writing the ending of a story that has yet to start. While it is true that I said that there is a possibility for Mr. Dong to be a state witness, I also said that it will all depend on the determination of Mr. Dong not appearing to be the most guilty. Such a fact has yet to be established,” Aguirre said.
“The statement of Sen. Trillanes at this point is too premature that it is laughable,” he pointed out.
Dong is one of the nine individuals that is sought by the National Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Customs for smuggling of P6.4 billion worth of illegal drugs from China.
Aguirre recently qualified the Dong’s possibility of being a state witness but depends if the businessman was the least guilty on the participation of the alleged smuggling.
“While it is true that I said that there is a possibility for Mr. Dong to be a state witness, I also said that it will all depend on the determination of Mr. Dong not appearing to be the most guilty. Such a fact has yet to be established,” he said.
That Senator Trillanes commented was staged by Aguirre, “Sec. Aguirre is setting the stage to absolve Paolo Duterte’s good friend/partner, Kenneth Dong, in this P6-billion shabu controversy.”
Dong confirmed yesterday in a blue ribbon committee hearing that he was only an “acquaintance” to Paolo Duterte, vice mayor of Davao City and son of President Rodrigo Duterte.
“Since Senator Trillanes is into story writing nowadays, perhaps he should also tell all concerned and responsible media practitioners where he is hiding the self-confessed media killer Arturo Lascanas, the man who admitted killing media man and radio anchor Jun Pala. Now that is a story worth telling,” Aguirre added. | (Tina Joyce Laceda – PTV)
