Stop crying wolf, file a case, Topacio dares Trillanes on paid TRO
LAWYER Ferdinand Topacio on Wednesday called on Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to file the appropriate charges if he has proof that the family of Vice President Jejomar Binay spent “big money” for an injunction against the suspension order on Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay.
Trillanes earlier said the family of Vice President Binay has paid a huge sum of money to secure an injunction against the implementation of the six months suspension on Junjun Binay.
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“As an officer of the court and member of the Philippine Bar, I am appalled that a Senator of the Republic no less would make such accusations that undermine the People’s faith in a co-equal branch without so much as a rumor to go by on,” Topacio said in a statement.
He said it is unfair not only to the Court of Appeals and its Sixth Division which issued the injunction but to the entire judiciary to make such baseless allegations.
“Of course, it is entirely within the character of Trillanes to weave fantastic scenarios, as what he did when he cried wolf – once too many – on supposed coup plots which only he and no other seemed to be aware of. His statements of late appear to inspire only sniggers instead of genuine concern, as Filipinos wait for him to sound the alarm bells on a Martian invasion,” Topacio said.
“Surely, if Mr. Trillanes has evidence of corruption in the courts, he should file the appropriate charges and prove them. Not in another meandering investigation in the Senate, where Trillanes enjoys immunity when he baselessly besmirches the reputations of the targets of his vitriol, but in the courts, where he can be made to answer if the charges he has filed are later found to be false,” he added.
Topacio said Trillanes should be made to answer for his statements. He said he is studying the filing of a case against the senator.
“While I have never met Trillanes personally and has no personal ax to grind against him, as an officer of the court, I cannot stand idly by while… [Senator Trillanes] throws muck at the institution of the Judiciary. I will see what cases I can file …to make him answer for his preposterous statements. And unlike him, I make good on my word,” Topacio said. AC
