Enrile family looking forward to patriarch’s homecoming

The family of Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile is looking forward to spending time with him at home after his detention for over a year at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center for plunder charges.

Enrile’s daughter Katrina said she was relieved that her father would be back with his family, after the Supreme Court granted his bail petition.

Vindication would come later, after the allegations against him have been threshed out, she said.

“We will only feel vindicated once all the issues have been threshed out in the Sandiganbayan and my father will have his day in court there,” she said in a phone interview.

Asked if the grant of bail indicated that the case against her father was weak, she said it would be self-serving for her to answer that.

She said the plea for bail was a recourse that any accused could seek, and that was what her father did. The Supreme Court was given ample time to weigh his arguments, she said.

At the moment, she is just glad to have her father home, Katrina said.

“It’s hard to see a loved one confined somehow, away from us, given that he’s 91 years old. We could see him now, he shall be at home, cared for in a better environment,” she said. Leila B. Salaverria