A LIST OF 51 NAMES– including the President, First Lady, their son, Sandro, majority leader, Reps. Martin Romualdez and wife, Rep.Yedda; resigned (and fleeing) Rep. Zaldy Co (in just number 7) and so many current Cabinet members– supposedly coming from Zaldy Co– circulating in social media by the Duterte camp does not contain a single one of Duterte allies being dragged into the flood control scandal.
This time, the list bore an old official photo of a healthy barong-clad Zaldy Co– compared to last week’s videos which portrayed him as emaciated, struggling and beleaguered. The photo obviously came from official files of Congress.
The list even includes the very same people who are undertaking the probes into the flood control mess including Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla and brother Jonvic of the Department of Interior and Local Government, Senate President Tito Sotto, Sens. Panfilo Lacson, chair of the Blue Ribbon Committee, Risa Hontiveros, Raffy Tulfo, Loren Legarda, several congressmen including Leila de Lima, retired PNP Chief Rommel Marbil, Cabinet secretaries ES Lucas Bersamin, Antonio Lagdameo and even DND Secretary Gilbert Teodoro (himself a longtime millionaire).
There was no mention of those to be charged: Sens. Chiz Escudero, Jinggoy Estrada, Joel Villanueva, former Senator Ramon Revilla, former Rep. Cajayon-Uy; and Undersecretaries Roberto Bernardo, former DPWH district engineer Henry Alcantara, special envoy Maynard Ngu, Carleen Villa, John Carlo Rivera, Linda “Victoria” Macanas, Juanito Mendoza, CPA; Sally Nicolas Santos, Jesse Mahusay, engineers Brice Ericson Hernandez, Jaypee Mendoza and Arjay Domasig and aliases “Beng Ramos,” “Mina” and “Andrei Balabat.” The Independent Commission on Infrastructure had submitted the case files against them to the proper forum
DDS REBUKES INC FOR REJECTING THEM
When the Iglesia ni Cristo staged originally a three-day rally (but cut it short to two days only) last week, the sect rejected the offer of Duterte Diehard Supporters (DDS), including the retired generals and Duterte cabinet members from joining the prayer rally, where INC just sought “transparency, accountability and good governance.”
In one video, the DDS virtually called the INC as an organization that supports politicians for certain privileges, influences and money.
The DDS planned to force President Marcos to resign or be ousted and replaced either by constitutional successor VP Sara Duterte (who was already all dressed and preconditioned to be sworn in) or by a military junta that would either pick someone from their ranks or a selected respected civilian business tycoon like Ramon S. Ang, to be the caretaker of the government until 2028. Ang has been tirelessly denying all such innuendos of his possible takeover.
But the DDS ordinary zealots would not settle for Ang, but only for Sara.