MANILA, Philippines—Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Thursday said he would only surface when “justice is rightly served or when I’m already dead.”Lacson, who has been in hiding after a warrant of arrest was issued against him for his alleged involvement in the Dacer-Corbito double murder case in 2000, said he would rather “suffer in pain but with dignity “ than do jail time for a crime he did not commit.
“I will only come out when justice is rightly served, or when I’m already dead,” he said in a statement emailed to reporters by his staff.
“It may not be the best way to spend geezerhood, but unless you get me ahead of my time, I prefer to suffer in pain but with dignity, sitting alone with my conscience for the rest of my life, rather than do time in jail for a crime I did not commit,” he further said.
Lacson said the facts are too glaring to ignore, citing for instance the testimony of his former aide, Cezar Mancao, who had linked him into the killings after admitting that he had been pressured and promised a good life by the previous administration.
Mancao then applied to become a state witness by testifying that sometime in September or early part of October 2000, when former president (Joseph Estrada) was out of the country, he supposedly overheard Lacson ordered the murder.
“Never mind that unassailable documents say that I was out of the country during that time, hence the physical impossibility of having engaged in that supposed ‘car conversation,’” said Lacson.
And just last November 11, Lacson said Mancao manifested before the court through his counsel that “he only learned of the sordid affair ‘ex post facto’” or after the fact.
“He ‘knew’ but he didn’t know. Should I take his place in jail?” asked Lacson.
“As lawyers like Secretary De Lima would always say, ‘untrue in one thing, untrue in everything,’” he said referring to Justice Secretary Leila De Lima.
Lacson then appealed to the justice secretary “to exercise what she said is her plenary power to ask the court to withdraw the information and conduct a reinvestigation” of the case.
Personal Opinion:
Hiding for me just proves that your guilty.If you know that your on the right path, go and face the consequences.God will not let all those lies to reign unto you.Just hope and ask God for guidance.Remember truth will set you free.
If I'am in the place of senator Ping Lacson I will face the press,tell all the things I know,and the truth.
