Just before we arrive at the scheduled date of the 2010 May elections, there are lots of issues arising against certain aspiring candidates. There are propagandas set to pull down one’s campaign. However, some of theses candidates are willing to take the challenge, and prove everyone wrong. Just like what former Secretary Gilbert Teodoro did, take the negative publicity as a challenge.
Lakas-Kampi CMD presidential bet Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. has dared Ampatuan clan’s lawyer to file charges against him in court for the ontogeny of illegal weapons in the province of Maguindanao.
“I am daring him to file charges against me in court,” Teodoro told reporters in Davao City. “And he better present strong documentary and physical evidence to back up his allegations.”
Ampatuans’ counsel, Philip Pantojan, had priorly supposed that Teodoro and the Department of National Defense (DND) were accountable for supplying high-powered firearms and ammunition to his clients.
“That claim is without basis; the lawyer is barking up the wrong tree. It is clear that the Defense Department has no operational control over the distribution of firearms and ammunition to the units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines,” says GiboTeodoro.
“What is clear is that accountable officers of the Armed Forces have control over the supplies and to where these will go,” he added.
During the initial investigation, the former Defense secretary had requested the AFP to unveil the result of its investigation into the outlawed diversion of military firearms and ammunition discovered last December in the armory of the Ampatuan clan in Maguindanao province.
On the other hand, Teodoro urged that the AFP should file the suitable charges against military officers found guilty for the arms diversion following an investigation ordered last month by AFP Chief Gen.Victor Ibrado.
“The people’s confidence in the military institution has to be maintained,”added Teodoro who stressed out for the responsible military officers, and that they must be punished to the full extent of the law.
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