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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
City officials to Manila authorities: Play tape
By Cheng Ordoņez
Zamboanga City officials are urging Congress to hold an investigation on the controversial tape of a supposed conversation between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, even as they insist that the public owe to know what is in the tape.
Mayor Celso Lobregat said for people to decide which is the truth there should be an investigate into the issue.
Councilor Elias Enriquez, on the other hand, is asking the National Telecommunications Commission to allow the airing of the controversial tape purportedly containing the alleged conversation of Arroyo and Garcillano, discussing plans on how to rig the results of the presidential elections, where Arroyo defeated the late action star Fernando Poe Jr.
The House of Representatives will hold an investigation Wednesday about the alleged wiretapping. The Senate also plans to conduct its own investigation on the matter.
Expected to appear in the House inquiry are Ong, Doble, Garcillano, Press secretary and presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye, former President Joseph Estrada's lawyer Allan Paguia, Negros Occidental Representative Ignacio Arroyo's chief of staff Edgar Ruado, representatives from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and officials of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (Isafp).
The audiotape will be aired during the hearing.
Meanwhile, the police will put a stop to the selling and distribution of copies of the alleged taped conversation between President Arroyo and Garcillano.
National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) Chief Vidal Querol said vendors and buyers of the audiotapes would be investigated in the crackdown. He also said they will determine the sources and motives for distributing the audio recordings.
"We will investigate this at once because so many people are sowing instability in our country through the tapes, and there are so many versions already," he said.
He also said the PNP Legal Office will also look into whether they could file criminal charges against those involved in the distribution of the audio recordings.
(June 15, 2005 issue)
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