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By Prince Golez, Manila Reporter
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
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MANILA – Sen. Leila de Lima should stop trying to fool herself and the Filipino people, said chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo, reacting to the senator’s letter to the President’s and the Philippine National Police’s spokespersons.
“She should accept reality and the truth that she created the rut she is now in. She is paying debt,” Panelo said on Friday.
On Friday, de Lima, in a handwritten letter dated March 3, told the allies of President Rodrigo Duterte, whom she accused of denying the prevalence of drug-related killings as “state-sponsored”, to “stop insulting our intelligence (and) fooling our people and the rest of the world.”
The lady senator, facing three counts of drug charges, is currently detained at the PNP’s Custodial Center in Camp Crame.
Based on an “online survey,” Duterte’s lawyer said “half a million” netizens wanted the former secretary of Justice and former Commission on Human Rights chairperson behind bars.
Only “less than 5,000” believed she is innocent of the charges against her, he added.
Meanwhile, de Lima also said that Duterte and others will be held accountable for the extrajudicial killings “in due time.”
“As I keep on saying – TRUTH has become the first major casualty in this so-called War on Drugs,” she wrote./PN
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