It pays to be a snitch for the military, which on Wednesday turned over P22 million to 10 informers for leading authorities to 12 high-value Abu Sayyaf members and communist leaders.
After President Aquino approved the promotion and appointment of the chief of the country’s top military spy agency, the mother of missing activist Jonas Burgos said she had lost hope that the human rights situation would improve.
Colonel Pedro Sumayo was “saving someone” and was not telling the whole truth when he testified on Tuesday at the Senate inquiry into alleged electoral fraud during the Arroyo administration, his former subordinate in the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (Isafp) said Wednesday.
On June 6, 2005, in an attempt to preempt the opposition, then Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye played to reporters two CDs of purported tapped conversations between then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and then Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano.
Weeks after the presidential election in May 2004, Colonel Pedro Sumayo of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (Isafp) received a number of cassette tapes from his subordinate, Sergeant Vidal Doble.
A “protégé” of then Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano on Tuesday testified at the Senate that she was offered between P50 and P100 million to cheat for a local candidate allegedly “helping” then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the 2004 elections.
