A FEDERATION of non-government organizations slammed senatorial candidate Leila de Lima on Monday for her alleged selective dispensation of justice, noting her apparent bias against opposition leaders and snail-paced action on complaints against allies of the Aquino Administration.
The Balikatan People’s Alliance pointed out that in just a matter of weeks, De Lima managed to file cases against critics of the Aquino Administration over the alleged anomalous use of “pork barrel” funds.
“As we all know two of these critics, Senators Bong Revilla Jr. and Jinggoy Estrada, have been in jail for more or less a year already,” Balikatan spokesman Arsenio Antiporda noted.
But despite the fact that suspected scam mastermind Janet Napoles herself said there are government allies in her list, Antiporda pointed out that not one has been detained.
“Cases were filed against a few but it took Miss De Lima months to do so,” Antiporda said.
When the SAF 44 were massacred in Mamasapano, it was immediately established that some of the killers were members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Antiporda said.
“But cases were filed against a few only a year after the massacre, and when Ms. De Lima was about to step down as Justice secretary. She was never reported as having aggressively pursued any action to take custody of the suspected killers,” Antiporda said.
Antiporda added that there are already a number of fraud complaints against Agriculture Sec. Proceso Alcala.
“But never was it reported that Miss De Lima filed any case against Secretarty Alcala or even had him invited for questioning, even if the complaints included non-bailable offenses like plunder.
“So considering all these, we have no assurance that Ms De Lima will do anything else to find out the truth behind the complaints against Aquino Government allies should she win in the elections unless she gives a solid justification,” Antiporda added.
