‘I told you so…drug charges are all made up,’ says De Lima

Senator Leila De Lima shows the human rights matrix presented to the senator by concerned Filipino women during a show of support to the senator at the Senate on Thursday, September 1, 2016. INQUIRER PHOTO / GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE

“I TOLD you so,” Senator Leila de Lima said on Wednesday after another witness denied owning a bank account that would allegedly link her to the illegal drug trade.

“Yun nga yun sinasabi ko sa inyo, manufactured ’yan. So saang galing na namang factory of manufactured evidence ’yan; ’yang mga ganyan,”  de Lima  told reporters.

“I told you already, sawang-sawa na nga ako sa kakaulit, di ba? Sinabihan ko na rin ang Pangulo na mapapahiya talaga s’ya in the end,” she said.

De Lima was reacting to her former employee’s (Jonathan Caranto) claim that he did not own the account at the Bando de Oro branch  in Caloocan City,  which supposedly contained  millions of pesos from  drug proceeds.

READ: Mystery bank account not that of De Lima’s aide 

Earlier, another former employee,  Edna “Bogs” Obuyes, also denied owning a bank account that would also  allegedly link   the senator  to  illegal drugs.  Caranto and  Obuyes are employees at the  Department of Justice and they worked for de Lima when the latter was still the justice chief.

This, De  Lima said, only showed that the charges against her were all fabricated.  No less than President Rodrigo Duterte had   dragged  her into the  drug mess.

“Ako  pagod na. Pagod  na ako kaka-deny. Pagod na ako kaya ayaw ko nang nakikinig, ayaw ko nang  nagre-respond, nagre-react dahil puro naman talaga kasinungalingan yan,”  she said.

Asked if she is expecting more  exposés against  her,  the senator said: “Hindi ko alam. Hindi ko po talaga alam. Hintayin   na lang natin ang susunod na kabanata.”

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