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Friday, June 10, 2005
Ex-NBI officer accuses Arroyo of cheating
MANILA (updated 6:00 p.m.) -- A former official of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) came out Friday and accused President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of cheating during the 2004 national elections.
He claimed to be the source of the tape of Arroyo's wiretapped conversation with a certain "Gary", alleged by the opposition as a Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner.
Former NBI deputy director Samuel Ong claimed to hold "the mother of all tapes" of the wiretapped conversation between Arroyo and Election Commissioner Virgilio Garciliano.
Ong, who appeared in a press conference Friday, called on the Catholic Church and civil society to provide him protection since he is now considered "dead meat" after coming out with the wiretapped tapes.
"The one sitting in Malacañang is not the real President of the Republic of the Philippines because the tape will reveal she cheated in the election," Ong said.
He said an officer of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) handed him the recorded conversation.
Ong said he is ready to submit the tapes for examination either by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Scotland Yard of England.
(June 10, 2005 issue)
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