With new Ombudsman, who needs Truth body?

5:28 am | Thursday, July 28th, 2011

President Benigno Aquino III and his justice secretary are confident they have an ace in retired Supreme Court justice Conchita Carpio-Morales at the Ombudsman’s Office that they are no longer interested in further arguing the legality of the truth commission before the Supreme Court.

With Mr. Aquino’s appointment of Morales, the government now has enough legal arsenal to pursue the investigation of the alleged corruption in the previous Arroyo administration, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Wednesday.

De Lima said she saw no reason for Malacañang to seek a reversal of the high court’s decision declaring as unconstitutional Mr. Aquino’s Executive Order No. 1 creating the truth commission to look into the alleged corruption of his predecessor, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

No longer needed

She said for practical purposes, there was no longer any need for a truth commission, “because we now have a new Ombudsman, we are hoping for the best, for the Office of the Ombudsman to really faithfully discharge its mandate this time”.

Mr. Aquino was of the same mind yesterday, saying he accepted the verdict handed down by the high court on his truth commission.

“It is not necessary that it has to be the truth commission,” he said.

“We now have confidence that the Ombudsman will be doing the function for which the office was set up,” the President said.

He said he was more interested in justice being served in relation to the Arroyo administration.

He said it would be up to Morales to now take over the data and evidence that the commission had gathered before it was struck down by the high court.

Morales was sworn in Wednesday in Malacañang. Mr. Aquino had announced her appointment during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday.

The former Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, who was pressured into resigning earlier this year after she was impeached by the House, was seen as an obstacle to the successful prosecution of Arroyo.

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Tags: new Ombudsman , Ombudsman’s office , retired Supreme Court justice Conchita Carpio-Morales , SONA 2011 , truth commission

Anonymous

Exactly. Who needs Corona when a more credible lady can be depended upon to hasten the cases that Merciditas Gutierrez sat on for years.

Anonymous

Sayang nga siya, Iba talaga pag minanchahan mo ang damit mo ang pangalan mo. Pero hind ipa huli ang lahat. If only he will change his mind. Filipinos are very forgiving especially if you are for the oppressed..so ok pa rin sir make a U-turn. It is for the good this time. God is with you and the Filipinos in general too if..

Anonymous

The truth commission has been attempted to be created due to a former incompetent/un-patriotic ombudsman. We now have a dependable legitimate, ”enforcer of the law” a ”Dirty Harry” type to do the job for Juan de la Cruz. God is with you and the Filipinos in general from the poorest, even to the honest wealthy.I can just imagine the smiles and joy from the oppressed and our country’s children. Kayo po ang bodyyguard ng bawat Pilipino.God bless you mam..
Anonymous

The problem would come if the convict will appeal his sentence to the SC and the SC will reverse the sentence of the ombudsman after a review….

That would be a topsy-turvy…..

Well I guess, the president and the current ombudsman will end their terms early before the chief justice does…
Anonymous

lumang tugtugin na yan.pag inapoint ni GMA yan noong araw siguradong balimbing ang tawag diyan.save your own skin dahil bagong administrasyon.mabuti sana kung walang bahid ng GMA corruption na talagang galing sa ibaba at bata pa.e beterana na yan sa kung ano anong korupsyon e ano ang mapapala natin ayy buhay mahirap umasa sa wala.hehehehehe
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WPT54PLXLILFZH7NRBDP75HLLM tongti

The problem with the Office of the Ombudsman now that former SC Justice Conchita Morales-Carpio is sitting as the new ombudsman is herself. Merely a political and judicial puppet of the Aquino administration, she will be as biased and vindictive as the Malacanang resident…focusing only on the previous administration’s alleged corruption while blinding herself from the present corruption being committed by President Aquino’s government and allies.

The distinct similarity between Carpio and Guttierez is that they are both mere lapdogs of Malacanang with JUSTICE the least of their priorities.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WF54GW7XAJ3DN65SBZGIUVKWYU FRED

Dont worry tongti…..if PINOY and his friends do become currupt like you said.
The next PRESIDENT and the people will handle them.

Of course not people like you who don’t want to do anything after what PGMA have done.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WPT54PLXLILFZH7NRBDP75HLLM tongti

Fred, and what’s this kind of justice “to wait for the next President and the people will handle them” called?

You also said, “…not people like you who don’t want to do….” I’m still trying to comprehend what you’re trying to say.

Anonymous

Don’t judge a book by its cover as the saying goes. Let give her office a clean bill of health, she has just taker her oath yesterday and she hasn’t warm her seat yet.

Prosecuting cases is not ripping a banana from its bunch and peeling it. It takes time to gather evidence and besides there is always the presumption of innocence and she has to prove the accused is guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ANRHUYZ4XRUXS6RMNHEOO7HN74 SSC

ano comission na naman, maraming na comission ang tinatak ng ating gov’t simula pa panahon na nilika ang filipinas, wala naman resulta lumalabas na totoo,puro minamagic lang ang utak at damdamin ng filipino, sana ilalim ng pamahalaan ni pnoy at kay justice ombusman,lumabas ang katotohanan, at parusahin ang mga salot sa lipunan, ay higit pa sa truth comission na binaliwala ng supreme court at iyan ang pinaka supreme na regalo ng gov’t to the filipino people.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WF54GW7XAJ3DN65SBZGIUVKWYU FRED

PATIENCE….. it is always faster to commit a crime than to get a conviction.
It will only take you a second to kill by pulling the trigger but it will take months or years for our justice system to convict you for the crime.

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