De Lima laughs at Arroyo’s ‘height of paranoia’

MANILA, Philippines—Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Thursday laughed off claims of the existence of a plot to kill former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, dismissing them as the “height of paranoia.”

“I don’t know how to react. What are they insinuating, that the threat is coming from the government?” De Lima told reporters. “That’s the height of paranoia already.”

Elena Bautista-Horn, Arroyo’s spokesperson, on Wednesday claimed that a “very reliable” source in the Aquino administration told their camp of a plan to kill Arroyo that was called “Oplan Put the Little Girl to Sleep.”