Arroyo to sue ‘only one person’ for her 4-year detention

Deputy Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. RICHARD A. REYES/INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA — Former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said she would sue only one person over her four-year detention if ever she would decide to pursue a case.

“It’s been considered but I haven’t pursued it. And if I’ll file a case, I’ll only file a case against one person,” Arroyo said at a press conference on Monday.

Reporters persisted in asking Arroyo to name the person but she laughed and replied:   “If I ever file a case… It is premature to disclose who that one person would be.”

Arroyo was detained at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) from 2012 until July this year.  She was finally released after the Supreme Court dismissed the plunder charges against her stemming from allegations of misuse of her intelligence funds during her presidency.

Then president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III made Arroyo the face of his six-year administration’s anti-corruption campaign.

Aquino’s then justice secretary and now Senator Leila de Lima filed the plunder complaints against Arroyo, which were all elevated by the Office of the Ombudsman to the Sandiganbayan, the anti-graft court.  SFM