Trust the feisty lady senator to dish out killer advice.
“In a Senate hearing held on Thursday, Mar 6, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago offered her insights about the pork barrel scam, particularly in connection with Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, his wife Cristina, and his former chief-of-staff Atty. Gigi Reyes,” reports TJ Burgonio in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Santiago alleges that Enrile and his wife are making it seem like Reyes is the “stand-alone culprit” in the PHP10-billion pork barrel scam. Enrile has been accused of being in cahoots with alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles.
Before she fired off her revenge tips, Santiago disclosed, “For me, as a humble friend of this young woman, Attorney Gigi Reyes, whom I knew because I was a trial judge when she was a law student in UP [and] her professor in Procedure told the class to observe my proceedings in my courtroom. That’s how I got to know her. And throughout her entire length of duty in the Senate, she never showed me anything but a pleasant and accommodating disposition.”
Then, Santiago let it rip. “I think that the best revenge for Attorney Gigi since I know she will watch this on YouTube is: ‘Attorney Gigi, return the money that Enrile stole!’ Because I’m sure that Attorney Gigi is in charge of the safekeeping of these illegitimate funds that need to be laundered abroad, and turn the tables on Enrile by coming home and turning into state witness,” she said.
Screengrab from a GMA News video
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