Labor official joins fray on ‘Bikoy’ videos, tags Robredo, Trillanes in ouster plot
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 11:33:55 +0000
A LABOR official joined the fray over a series of videos that had linked members of President Rodrigo’s family to illegal drugs and said he would file criminal charges against the alleged perpetrators.
Labor Undersecretary Jacinto Paras accused Vice-President Ma. Leonor “Leni” Robredo and Senator Antonio Trillanes 4th of being behind the destabilization efforts against the Duterte administration.
Paras showed photos of Robredo and Rodel Jayme, the uploader of the “Bikoy” videos featuring a hooded man who implicated the Duertes, calling them part of a plot to unseat the President.
Paras also slammed journalist Ellen Tordesillas who was identified in a Manila Times story as the one who may have spread the videos based on a “matrix” of people and groups that were linked to the planned ouster.
Paras claimed that Tordesillas was a long-time supporter and alleged apologist of Trillanes even as he called on the journalist to come out clean and expose those behind her.
“The reported involvement of Robredo and Trillanes show that those Bikoy videos are spurious and a mere figment if their wild imagination,” he said.
“This is entirely of a political nature, a direct attempt by these people to return to power using the video to weaken the administration candidates for the Orso Diretso to land seats in the Senate,” he added.
The videos, Paras said, were malicious, adding that its real intention is to sow hatred against the President and his administration.
Clearly, Paras said, the videos incited sedition.
He cited Article 139, paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Revised Penal Code as basis for the sedition charge.
Paras, a seasoned lawyer, said he was now preparing the criminal charges against those responsible and would lead the filing in his capacity as a citizen of the Republic. WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL
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