DepEd Stands Tall

Posted by Yvonne Chua
PCIJ

DROWNED out in the battle of manifestos on the ongoing political crisis is a statement released late last week by top and mid-level officials of the Department of Education (DepEd).

The statement, which appeared as a full-page ad in several national newspapers, underscored the need to keep the education system "nonpartisan and insulated from politics."

Saying that "quality education must be a path out of this crisis," the DepEd also sought a bigger budget — an 8 to 9 percent rise in its annual budget over the next five years — and the use of the Special Education Fund (SEF) of local governments solely for basic education.

A DepEd insider said education officials were constrained to issue the statement amid fears that national and local politicos who have pledged their support to the embattled Arroyo presidency would again try to meddle in the education sector, and that the president would be hard-pressed to refuse their requests given how heavily compromised she has become.

Many politicians are known to lobby for fat supply contracts and appointments of superintendents and other school officials. Their attempts, however, have been frustrated by the recent crop of DepEd officials.

By issuing last week's statement, the insider said DepEd officials are also emphasizing to whoever becomes the new education secretary—politician or otherwise—that he or she should embrace the ongoing reform agenda started under Secretary Edilberto de Jesus.

"We are setting the terms of reference. We are a professionally run organization and need to stay the course. We can't have a new secretary changing the reform agenda that took us years to craft," the insider said.

The statement was signed by all the DepEd undersecretaries and assistant secretaries, as well as nearly all its 184 schools superintendents.

Education Secretary Florencio Abad was one of the seven Cabinet members who resigned and called for President Arroyo's resignation last July 8. Arroyo has not named his replacement, but has put Undersecretary Ramon Bacani as officer-in-charge.

The appointments of several new Cabinet members are perceived to be part of the political accommodation Arroyo has been forced to make after veteran politicians like Speaker Jose de Venecia and former president Fidel V. Ramos rallied behind her amid the escalating clamor for her resignation.

Budget Secretary Romulo Neri, for example, was for a long time head of the Congressional Planning and Budget Office during De Venecia's extended speakership. He is a known JDV guy.

Some of the resigned Cabinet members have said the Arroyo administration is set to release soon the pork-barrel allocations of legislators despite the huge budget deficit to earn their support.

Trade Secretary Peter Favila was head of the Philippine National Bank during the Ramos era, when it was still in government hands, and was responsible for, among other things giving a hefty $14-million "behest" loan to businessman-rocker Ramon "RJ" Jacinto so the latter could buy PNB-owned property on Buendia Avenue in Makati in the mid-1990s.

The PCIJ wrote about this deal in 1998. What happened was PNB lent money to Jacinto so he could buy the property at a recordbreaking price of P3.7 billion. Then Jacinto offset his loans to another of his company with payments made on the property. In other words, a clever manipulation of the books that got Jacinto off the hook.  Both Favila and Jacinto can be described as Ramos boys.

Favila is also a nephew of Ramos-era Central Bank Gov. Gabriel Singson, also known to be close to Ramos.

Zamzamin Ampatuan, the new chief of the National Anti-Poverty Commission, comes from a politically influential and controversial clan in Maguindanao, with strong links to the De Venecia faction of Lakas.

One of the Ampatuans, Andal, is Maguindanao governor. As another Maguindanaoan politico revealed, Arroyo defeated Fernando Poe Jr. in 2004 with the statistically improbabale margin of 99.83 percent to 0.17 percent in seven Maguindanao towns where the mayors are all members of the Ampatuan clan.

Alexander Arevalo, the officer-in-charge at the Bureau of Customs, was a Ramos aide.  During Ramos's time, he was one of three young military officers, all graduates of the Philippine Military Academy, who served as the then president's personal assistants. A techno buff, he was largely responsible for the state-of-the art computerized back room or workroom in Malacanang, next to the Rizal Room where Ramos often received guests.

DepEd's statement in full:

A STATEMENT TO OUR LEADERS, TEACHERS, PARENTS AND COMMUNITIES

Quality Education must be a Path out of this Crisis.

We believe that quality education must be a path out of this crisis. Genuine democracies the world over succeed only where: 

• Teaching is valued by society as a time-honored profession; 
• Education is an endeavor where the whole community is involved; and
• Education system is non-partisan and insulated from politics.

The political events of these times are important to the future of the country. The running of the schools and education for all, especially our young children, however, are concerns of the present.

General Statement to the Public

The Department has put in place reforms to improve the quality of education over the past three years. These include academic reforms:

• New grading system
• Bridge program to prepare elementary graduates for high school
• Every Child a Reader program
• English, Science and Math proficiency
• Revisions to the Basic Education Curriculum
• Textbook policy (including a new, more stringent textbook content evaluation process); and
• Expansion of the Madrasah education system for young Muslim Filipinos
• Alternative Learning System for out-of-school children, youth and adults

and financial reforms:

• Decentralization of the payroll system to the regions
• Clean-up of the automatic payroll deduction system (APDS) to protect teachers from usurious lenders
• Professionalization of the Department's provident fund for teachers and non-teaching personnel
• Tightening of qualification standards in the hiring of teachers and principals
• Direct-release system and the electronic NGAS (New Government Accounting System)
• Government procurement reforms (school buildings, furniture, textbooks, instructional materials)

Over the past three years, our Department has worked hard to create and maintain a corruption-free environment with emphasis on cleaning up anomalies in hiring, procurement and finance. We are today a professionally-managed organization of educators.

Started under Secretary Edilberto C. de Jesus as the 12-Point Agenda (later the Education Roadmap), Secretary Florencio B. Abad expanded and refined these reforms as the Schools First Initiative.

To all our publics, the Department will stay the course with the Schools First Initiative that puts in place the plans for the decentralization of education down to the schools and to involve local school boards, parents and communities in taking responsibility and ownership for the achievement and performance of students under their watch.

Despite the ongoing political developments, the career professionals in the field down to our school heads and teachers assure parents that the delivery of quality education through our schools and alternative learning systems will stay focused on the Schools First Initiative. We are committed to the education of our children.

To our Leaders

Stay focused on education reforms. We need a peaceful, orderly and quick resolution to this crisis to help us focus on the task-at-hand for ourselves (quality education) and for the nation (growth and stability). Support the education reforms by significantly increasing the necessary resources to allow us to deliver on these.

To our Teachers

Stay focused on teaching. We encourage school discussion of issues to promote better understanding of the situation. But we will not tolerate mass actions that disrupt our schools. Legitimate issues should be handled within available mechanisms. We assure our teachers that the Department is working to raise the necessary resources for education, including improving teacher welfare and a salary increase.

To our Parents

Be actively involved in your children's education. Get involved with your school. This period provides us with an opportunity to clarify and affirm the values important to our society such as truth, justice, accountability, citizenship and love of country.

A Statement to All

Education is important to the future of this country. Let us spend more on public education. To our leaders, both national and local, as well as our major publics – parents, local business sector and our immediate communities – this is what we must do:

1. Raise the annual budget of the Department of Education by at least 8-9% per year over the next five years. This yearly increase of P9-10 Billion will allow us to catch up with the shortages and to provide quality inputs to keep our children engaged in the school system.
2. Focus the Special Education Fund (SEF) of local governments soely on basic education, including the education for out-of-school children, youth and adults, and on our schools. Let us minimize the use of the SEF on non-basic-education-related matters.
3. Ensure that the Department of Public Works and Highways turns over only completely-constructed school buildings. Local leaders must make sure that DPWH-constructed school buildings are complete and to specifications.
4. Depoliticize education policy. Let us not be afraid to provide an additional year of education to better prepare our children for their future. Let only properly trained pre-school teachers teach pre-school. Let us expand high school to better prepare our graduates for university or to gain more competitive skills needed for the world of work. Let us support electoral reforms that will free teachers from mandatory poll duties.

The education of our children is too important to leave to Government alone. All of us have a collective responsibility to make our education system reform. We ask all Filipinos to join us in this undertaking.

Gloria's Fighting Words

(Text of Pres. Arroyo's Nationwide TV/Radio Address on July 7, 2005)

 

Mga Minamahal kong kababayan.

When I was young and my late father Diosdado Macapagal was president of our country, I thought of him as the "good guy" and his political opponents on the other side were the "bad guys".

Because of my father's influence, I had always thought of myself as on the side of the good. Thus, it is very painful for me to know that among many of our countrymen today, I have been demonized as the "bad guy." This is unfair, but it is a cross that God in His wisdom has given me to bear, so I will bear it. I have never questioned God's ways before, and I will not do so now.

When I first entered politics in 1992, little did I know that within a decade, I would become president of our country. And little did I expect that within another five years, there would be calls from civil society for my resignation from office or for the formation of a "Truth Commission" regarding some of my political actuations.

When I spoke before the nation some two weeks ago, I did so against the advice of my legal counsel. But I thought that speaking before you, the Filipino people, was the right thing to do. Shameless people have peddled the lie that I confessed to cheating. What I disclosed was that I talked to an election official. But that this had taken place after the certificates of canvas had already been used to proclaim the winning senators, and it was those same certificates of canvass that showed that I won by around a million votes. That is the truth.

Indeed, it is right for our country to confront the truth, but if we do so, let's confront the biggest, most painful political truth. The big truth that we are aware of deep in our hearts, but that we collectively sweep under the rug. The big truth whose debilitating effects on our country, year after year, decade after decade, have developed into feelings of disgust, hopelessness and even despair among large segments of our society.

The truth that I discovered from my beginnings as a neophyte politician in 1992, rising to become a veteran politician through the years, is this: over the years, our political system has degenerated to such an extent that it is very difficult to live within the system with hands totally untainted. That is the truth. In addition, our system has degenerated to such an extent that more often than not, it is political agenda first, and national interest last. For example, we have endless investigations and scandals in aid of political and media projection, rather than in aid of legislation or executive action. That is the truth. Because of this system of politics, our country has been left behind by other countries in the region, and our best and brightest, the cream of our youth, are voting with their feet to leave the country. That is the truth.

I do not blame any individual or political block for this sad state of affairs. It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change. We are collectively to blame, so we must collectively be the solution. Let he who is without sin, cast the stone. To those who feel that they cannot cast the first stone, I invite you to help in the solution.

My proposed approach to reform our system of politics and governance is something that I had wanted to bring forth during the upcoming state of the nation address. However, because our country is hungry for a resolution to the political uncertainties that have plagued us these past few weeks, I will bring it up now.

First of all, I am not resigning my office. To do so under circumstances that connote an EDSA 3 would condemn any successor to the possibility of an EDSA 4, then an EDSA 5, and so on, unless our political system were first reformed to make it more responsive to the people's will, such that changes in leadership come about in an orderly and stable manner.

The world embraced EDSA 1 in 1986. The world tolerated EDSA 2 in 2001. The world will not forgive an EDSA 3 in 2005, but would instead condemn the Philippines as a country whose political system is hopelessly unstable. And the Filipinos as among the finest people in the world, but who always shoot themselves in the foot. Under those circumstances, who would invest money in the Philippines? How would we weather the difficulties arising from the price of crude oil being at its highest in history?

What I intend to do is to work with legislators and civil groups who believe that changes in the fundamental law of the land are necessary in order to confront such basic issues as federalism, the character of our legislative process, reducing red tape in government processes, running for public office under a true party system and with less need to raise campaign funds, modernizing the economic provisions of our constitution, and so forth.

At the same time, I will restructure and strengthen the cabinet, giving it a free hand to meanwhile reform and manage our day to day governance with as little political interference as possible, even from me.

This is how we will proceed.

First, I'm asking my entire cabinet to tender their resignation in order to give the executive a free hand to reorganize itself. I'll ask our sectors to give me the names of candidates that we can invite to replace those who will not return to the cabinet, or even to help out at other levels of the executive.

Second, the cabinet will be given a free hand on governance, while I focus on the fundamental changes that we need to put in place.

Third, I will begin to reach out to the political and civil sectors that have an interest in the various advocacies that are relevant to our constitution. Federalism, for example, is an advocacy that I had espoused long ago.

This is neither political ploy nor gimmick. I believe that this process will quickly lay the foundation for deep reforms in our society, including reforms in our political way of life. This would be a legacy that our generation of politicians and citizens could collectively be proud of. I now have grand children to play with and to help bring up. Like all of you, I want our children to grow up in a better Philippines. I have prayed on this, and I hope that I have discerned God's will properly.

Maraming salamat sa inyong lahat.

Electoral Fraud

Posted by Vinia Datinguinoo
PCIJ

THE Congressional canvass that declared Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to have won the presidency in 2004 showed her to have beaten Fernando Poe Jr. by 1,123,576 votes. A study published in Kasarinlan, a journal of UP's Third World Studies Center, says this could not be so. The paper, written by new media pioneer Roberto Verzola, asserts that Arroyo did not win the May elections by 1.1 million votes. It was a very close contest, Verzola says, with "the most probable results" ranging from a GMA win of around 156,000 votes or less, to an FPJ win of around 84,000 votes or less.

Verzola analyzed both the Namfrel tally—that used election returns (ERs)—and the parallel official count by Congress of provincial Certificates of Canvass (COCs). He dissected not only the numbers but how the tally itself progressed.

Verzola first made his findings public just over a month after the elections, in a shorter piece published June 20 last year in the Inquirer.

View Verzola's full report here.

 

Posted by Yvonne Chua
PCIJ

FIFTY-NINE percent of the respondents of a Social Weather Stations' telephone survey in Metro Manila believe President Arroyo told then Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano to cheat in the May 10, 2004 elections and that she was not just trying "to protect her votes."

The June 28-30 survey, which the SWS said was "conducted on its own initiative as a public service" after Arroyo's June 27 admission that she had called a Comelec official, showed that only 29 percent believe she called to protect her votes.

Other highlights of the survey:

• 68 percent heard Arroyo's June 27 address over TV or radio, or read it in newspapers.
• 94 percent were aware of the Garci tapes.
• 32 percent had listened to the tapes, and 40 percent had either listened to or at least read a transcript of the tapes.
• 84 percent support the full airing of the tapes to the public.
• Only 20 percent agreed with Arroyo's statement that the chapter on the Garci tapes should be closed; 77 percent wanted some things done, including an investigation (26 percent) and Arroyo's resignation (18 percent).
• 48 percent said Vice President Noli de Castro was capable of running the government in case Arroyo resigned or were removed.
• Arroyo has a -31 net trust rating and the Comelec, -27.

Comelec Reactions

Posted by Yvonne Chua, PCIJ 

ONE Comelec lawyer confirmed today talking with Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano about the votes in Talitay town, Maguindanao. (Read previous post, Arroyo and ARMM.)

Wynne Asdala of the law department told PCIJ that he has read the transcript of the three-hour tape but has not heard it.

Asdala, who served as the provincial election supervisor of Maguindanao in the May 10, 2004 elections and who was heard in the controversial recordings twice discussing with Garcillano former Sen. Robert Barbers' alleged request to raise his votes in Maguidanao and Sultan Kudarat, denied he and Garcillano ever talked about Barbers and the attempt to pad the former senator's votes.

He said the commissioner had called to ask who was leading in Talitay, but could not remember which candidate the latter was interested in. He also said he could not have intervened in Columbio, a town in Sultan Kudarat. (The provincial election supervisor of Sultan Kudarat was Lintang Bedol.)

Asdala also denied he knows Sultan Kudarat Gov. Pax Mangudadatu, who, together with his son, Rep. Suharto "Teng" Mangudadatu, was mentioned in the tape as supposedly asking him to help Barbers in Talitay. The Mangudadatus have yet to give their side.

Meanwhile, two Comelec personnel from Mindanao informed PCIJ today that the voice of "Boy" resembled that of Renato "Boy" Magbutay, Comelec director for the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. 

Two other Comelec sources based in Manila earlier told PCIJ that they were sure Boy's voice was that of Renault "Boy" Macarambon, a lawyer detailed at the office of Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano and supposedly tasked by the commissioner to closely monitor the ARMM.

In their conversations, Boy and Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano discussed the political opposition's plan to present election officer Rashma Hali as a witness on the alleged cheating in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan, as well as President Arroyo's concern that a teacher from Languyan, Tawi-Tawi was in the opposition's "Witness Protection Program."

Magbutay told PCIJ in a phone interview that said he has not listened to the tape. But he said, "Hindi ako yung nandoon sa (I'm not there in the) alleged tape. It's not me."

He also suggested, "Why don't we wait for the proper agency to determine if it's the original or altered tape? Malay mo pinagdugtong-dugtong lang yan to make it appear na original (It may have been spliced to make it appear that it's the original)."

Macarambon did not report for work today, and has not returned our calls despite a request we left with his colleagues.

Cardinal Sin, 76

Jaime Cardinal Sin, 76
Former Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin passed away Tuesday morning after a lingering illness, DZMM reported. He was 76.
abs-cbnNEWS.com

Cardinal Sin dead at 76

Philippines' Cardinal Sin dies at 76 MSNBC  ... his death early Tuesday. "Our call to all the faithful is to include in their prayers the soul of Cardinal Sin," Sescon said.

Cardinal Jaime Sin Dies at 76 Los Angeles Times, CA  MANILA, Philippines -- Cardinal Jaime Sin, the Roman Catholic cleric who helped lead revolts that ousted two Philippine presidents, died early Tuesday.

Philippines Cardinal Sin is dead BBC News, UK  Cardinal Sin played a key role in the Philippines' transition to democracy following the lengthy dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.

Cardinal Jaime Sin Dies at 76 San Francisco Chronicle, CA  Cardinal Jaime Sin, the Roman Catholic cleric who helped lead revolts that ousted two Philippine presidents, died early Tuesday. He was 76.

Hello, Garci Ring Tone Download

Here are Mp3 and wav files of the Hello Garci ring tone:

Indymedia server:
"Hello Garci" ringtone, MP3 format (124.1 KB)
"Hello Garci" ringtone, MP3 format (72.1 KB)

Server Mirror 1:
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"Hello Garci" ringtone, WAV format (197KB)

Server Mirror 2:
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"Hello Garci" ringtone, WAV format (197KB)

Server Mirror 3:
"Hello Garci" ringtone, MP3 format (360KB)
"Hello Garci" ringtone, WAV format (197KB)

To save, right-click on the file and click save as.

Many thanks to QC Indymedia and Yuga of PinoyBlog and Ploghost for hosting the files.

Links to the entire tape are at the PCIJ blog.

How do I put it in my phone?

1. Download your choice by clicking any or all of the files.

2. Transfer the downloaded file/s from the computer to your phone using either an infrared connection or a USB-to-phone cable.

3. For those whose phones have GPRS/WAP access, point your phone's browser to www.txtpower.org and download it directly to your phone.

4. Once transferred to your phone, the sound file may be used as ringtone for calls or text messages.

Other options

1. Ask for file-transfer from friends who may already have the ringtone. Both your phones should have either infrared or bluetooth connections.

2. Join any of the future anti-GMA rallies and look for the TXTPower banner. Next big date is June 24.

3. Watch out for the TXTPower "Hello Garci" Ringtone Download Team when they go around offices, stores and tiangges, communities and schools!

Download Garci Ring Tone From TxtPower

June 17, 2005
Here are Mp3 and wav files of the Hello Garci ring tone:

Server Mirror 1:
"Hello Garci" ringtone, MP3 format (360KB)
"Hello Garci" ringtone, WAV format (197KB)

Server Mirror 2:
"Hello Garci" ringtone, MP3 format (360KB)
"Hello Garci" ringtone, WAV format (197KB)

Server Mirror 3:
"Hello Garci" ringtone, MP3 format (360KB)
"Hello Garci" ringtone, WAV format (197KB)

To save, right-click on the file and click save as.

Many thanks to Yuga of PinoyBlog and Ploghost for hosting the files.

Links to the entire tape are at the PCIJ blog.

ABS-CBN Download

 

You can download the controversial "Gloria-Garci" tapes from ABS-CBN Archive.

Retirees' Revolt

'Destab' in Aid of Collection?
By Roel Landingin
Newsbreak Contributing Writer


There are few combinations more dangerous than money and the military, but that's exactly the combustible mix that the Arroyo administration stirred up when it did not pay enough attention to the military retirees' demands for the settlement of unpaid pension benefits amounting to at least P17 billion as of end-2004.

Former generals who called for President Arroyo's ouster last May 1 are also leaders of a group of military retirees pressing the government to pay legally mandated increases in retirement benefits since 2000. What began as an innocent welfare issue seems to have evolved into a patently anti-government political movement.

In January, after getting tired of appealing to authorities, an organization of retirees, the Federation of Retired Commissioned and Enlisted Soldiers (Forces), filed a class suit against the defense and budget departments as well as the House of Representatives and the Senate to compel the government to appropriate funds to pay for the increases in the retirees' pensions.

The retirees' lawyer argued that the government's failure to pay part of the ex-soldiers and officers' pensions amounted to "grave abuse of discretion" and violated the military retirement law. The government has not earmarked any amount for the payment of the increases in pensions and other benefits of retired soldiers stipulated in the law, he said.

Four months later, leaders of Forces and other retiree groups, notably retired army general and ex-Defense Secretary Fortunato Abat, called for the ouster of Ms. Arroyo and the establishment of a revolutionary junta composed of military, political, and civil society leaders.

Another retired officer, Commodore Ismael Aparri, disclosed in early April that former soldiers were soliciting the support of those in active duty for a "civil disobedience" campaign to force the government to settle its pension obligations to close to 300,000 retired or separated soldiers, including dependents of those who have died, according to a report in the Tribune. He warned that the government's failure to act on the retirees' demands for pension payments may encourage some of former soldiers and officers to move for the ouster of President Arroyo.

Calling for the President's overthrow looks like an odd way to collect on the government's obligation. But if senators can conduct "investigations in aid of collection"—as UK bank Standard Chartered called the Senate's inquiry on an alleged investment scam—why can't ex-soldiers use the threat of destabilization to collect as well?

Alternative Arroyo Download

Posted by Alecks Pabico

PCIJ
 

THE tsunami-like surge in bandwidth usage due to the unprecedented download requests for the controversial tapes has already forced the shutdown of one of our servers and those of the mirror sites that have been generously shared to us. However, thanks again to some of our fellow bloggers' initiatives, the files can still be downloaded via the following links:

Three-Hour Tape

• BitTorent: http://mininova.org/tor/55762 (160MB)
• RapidShare:
  1. Audio Set 1 (01-11) - 48.7MB
  2. Audio Set 2 (12-20) - 45.6MB
  3. Audio Set 3 (21-29) - 46.8MB
  4. Audio Set 4 (30-33) - 20.5MB

Paguia Tape

• BitTorent: http://mininova.org/tor/55788 (31MB, including text file of transcript)
• Windows Media Video: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=12LP7M2J (with subtitles)

PCIJ Download

Posted by Alecks Pabico, PCIJ 

FINALLY, here's the tracker to the torrent file of the three-hour tape, courtesy of Yuga and MLQ3, from which you can start seeding to have your own copy. You will need a BitTorrent client installed on your PC to download the content of the torrent file. With a DSL connection, download time is roughly about two hours.

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Gloria's Alleged Conversations

You can download the three-hour-three-CDs audio recording of the alleged telephone conversation between Pres. Arroyo and Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano through these 33 separate MP3 files provided by PCIJ:

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For first-timers:  You can download by right-clicking on the links above and save each one to your hard disk.

Kapamilya Run

Registration Centers:

• Ayala Center (beside the Activity Center)
• Aboitix Express in E-Mall
• SM City (beside the Supermarket)
• Cebu City Sports Commission (Cebu City Sports Center)
• ABS-CBN Broadcast Complex, Jagobiao, Mandaue City

The P100 registration fee entitles each runner singlets, snacks and giveaways.

 

Pulso sa DYAB Abante Bisaya ug TV Patrol Central Visayas

Too ka bang Estados Unidos maoy utok sa pagbisto sa audio recording ni Pres. Arroyo?

Please text your answer to DYAB REACT (opinion) and send to 2366.

Weather Update

Southwest monsoon prevailing over Luzon and Western Visayas.

Metro Cebu: Occasional rains, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the southwest, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 24 to 30°C (75 to 86°F).
 

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Daily Tribune Expose'

CONVERSATIONS WITH COMELEC COMMISSIONER VIRGILIO GARCILLANO

Wednesday, 06 08, 2005

Part I

15.Conversation between Gary and Lyn 03 18:30 June'04

Gary: Hello, ipa-alala mo kay Romy meron silang reward nyan pero wag maingay kahit na isang M makuha nya. Pero kasing isa pa sana kung pwepwede pero hindi ko lang alam meron silang ikwa-kwan, yung "SMILE" din ke kwan pa naman yan, sa kaibigan dyan sa tabi. Pero yung isa sigurado na yun, yung sinabi ko. Pagkatapos nung kwan, tatanungin ko pa yung isa.

Female: Oho.

Gary: Pero unahin na nyan yung sinabi ko na. Sige, sige

16. Conversation between Gary and an unidentified male personality on 03 19:03 June'04

Gary: Hello

Man: Padre, pag nakumpleto mo, proclaim mo na kaagad, para tapos na.

Gary: Oo, naka-ready na ha.

Man: Oo sige, sige sabihin mo lang sakin kung kelan ko dadalhin.

Gary: Ngayon, ngayon hanggang bukas kailangan mayari ito.

Man: O sige, basta sabihin mo lang kung magkano.

Gary: Magkano? Xxx Sinasabi ko nang isa pero kung kwan, dadagdagan natin baka manghingi eh.

Man: Ok lang pare, kelan ko dadalhin?

Gary: Ahh.

Man: Ah hindi, malalaman ko lang bukas maaga. Syempre ipro-proclaim mo na, kung magkano sabihin mo na lang sakin. Sige, ok.

Gary: Ok.

17. Conversation between Gary and one unidentified male and Supt. Ampatua on 06 18:00 hrs. June'04

Man: Comm. Afternoon. Nasa Manila?

Gary: Nasa Manila.

Man: Andito ko sa resthouse, sa Baguio.

Gary: Pangasinan?

Man: Oo (Visayan dialect followed)

Supt. Ampatua: Good afternoon, Nagkaproblema ako, kasi at 4 o'clock dawn yesterday binaril sila. Malaki, indiscriminate firing __79 then, kinabukasan while nga yung military dalhin nila yung mga paraphernalia sa bayan, hinarang sila doon saka pinutol yung mga kahoy, hindi na maidaan. So, dumating ang mga balota sa polling place mga 1:30. So wala ang Comelec, wala. Naiwan sila Pualas, eh hindi sila pinatuloy. Hinarang talaga, nag human barricade. So ngayon, may dala akong pulis report. It's a spot report stating all these things kaya gusto magpunta sayo bukas, kasi with these things happening, there's no use scheduling it again maybe...

Gary: It will not anymore.

Supt. Ampatua: Iproclaim na natin yun son-in-law ko, then the best thing to do really, we need 33 votes. With 33, we will be spending millions, money of the people of the republic.

Gary: But how many votes, is he over with opponent?

Supt. Ampatua: Oo, 205 ang lead nya. Ang boto is only 270 so minus that lead nya, the remaining is only 65 considering na lahat mag-boto, kung 50 lang, 100 lang ang magboto, its no more needed.

Gary: O sige, sige. Ako na ang kwan.

Supt. Ampatua: What could have my money bought. We'll go there ha, we'll take the first flight hah.

...More conversation (Visayan dialect)

18.Conversation with Danny and Gary on 25 19:52 May 2004

Danny: Sir, good evening. Si Danny po ito, Sir, Tapos na po ang Cotabato City?

Gary: Hinihintay ko yung i-fax ni Vidol.

Danny: Ano kaya, nagawan ng paraan Sir?

Gary: Oo. Ang akin, sabi ko, kwarenta mahigit ang kailangan para omo-ver siya. As of this afternoon, 39.

Danny: Ang hinihintay lang po ay Cotabato City, ano po sir?

Gary: Ha?

Danny: Cotabato City na lang ang hinihintay?

Gary: Oo, pero may konti pa sa Lanao Sur.

Danny: Ah, yung anim na municipalities. Panalo daw siya dun eh.

Gary: Mananalo siya talaga. Nandun si Lou Makarambong eh. Pababantayan ko.

Danny: Opo, opo.

Gary: Kaya nga sabi kung makapanalo siya ng 20, 25,000, magcelebrate na tayo

Danny: San po ba kayo, nasan kayo sir?

Gary: Nandito ko sa kwan, Westin Plaza.

Gary: Hayaan nyo, ipapahanda ko yung mga kwan sir, basta't na-kwan eh aking ipapahanda yung para sa ating mga kwan...

Gary: Bata. Nag-usap na kami. Sabihin mo lang tumawag lang sya sa akin.

Danny: Sige sir. Sir, ganito sana eh. Kung malalaman ko ngayong gabi, ipacelebrate ko na siya eh.

Gary: O sige lang, mag-uusap na kami.

Danny: Opo, opo...

19. Conversation between Gary and an unidentified male personality on 20:00 hotel May '04

Gary: Hello

Male: Padre, naniniwala kayo sa amin na makabawi daw dyan Comelec. Humihingi ng binebentang boto. Ano bang gagawin natin dyan.

Gary: Sino sa kanila yun

Male: Hindi ko alam kung sino eh, pero merong naglapit samin.

Gary: Kaya ko, kaya ko yan

Male: Binigyan ng kwan. Masyadong malaki pare, limang milyon ang hinihingi eh.

Gary: Magkano?

Male: Limang milyon daw.

Gary: Ha?

Male: O hindi bale kung magka-abisuhan lang pwede naman tayong magdagdag eh...xxx

Gary: Oo, kung makakapagbigay talaga, xx. Makikiano ka muna pagkatapos titingnan ko kung sino. Kunwari lang maki-ano ka. Ipasok mo ang tao mo.

Male: Pero pare willing naman kaming magdagdag kung kinakailangan ha!

Gary: O sige, oo. Para mabantayan ko.

Male: O sige...

20.Conversation between Gary and an unidentified male on or about 14 08:51 hotel June 2004

Male: Hello, good morning. Nandito ako sa Malaybalay. Sabi nung kabila kung kailangan daw dagdagan pa, dadagdagan pa. Di ba ang usapan natin kulang pa ng six, six hundred.

Gary: 6 or 8

Male: Hindi yung ibibigay ko sayo. Atin lang yun, kulang pa ng 600?

Gary: Hindi sakin yan, sa mga bata.

Male: Oo alam ko. Tulungan mo na lang, meron akong inaano dyan eh..

Gary: O sige

Male: Kung maari daw before the 30 kasi sila magfacilitate ng pagdating ni Gloria sa Cebu, sa ano.

Gary: Ah hindi wala na, wag na nating istoryahan tana.

Male: Ah ok.

Gary: Tingnan ko lang kung ano. Basta inaano ko nga sa kanila, kung hindi, di balik yan.

Male: OO, ikaw na bahala dyan.

Gary: Eh kung hindi nila magawa nila eh di pano.

Male: Pwede akong pumunta bukas.

Gary: Hindi kausapin ko muna si Boss.

Male: Tawagan mo ako ha kung punta ako dyan

3. Conversation between Gary and a certain Ruben: on 07 20:38 June '04

Ruben:: Hello Garci, si Ruben:. Anong balita?

Gary: Eto, nag-aano kasi ako yung sa Tipo-tipo na tao, parang nasa kamay na nila. Pero wala naming damage sa atin, per okay Wa-ab. Kaya dapat si Wa-ab ang gumalaw nyan.

Ruben:: Pero, mag-tetestify sya against the administration eh, against the President!

Gary: How can he? Wala naman siyang ginawa kay Presidente.

Ruben:: Eh hindi diba, ang gagamiting, mag-tetestify siguro yun against the President regarding the bawas-dagdag na ginawa dun sa ano..

Gary: Wala naman tayong ginawa para kay Presidente dun sa kanya ah.

Ruben:: Hindi, yun ang pine-presenta di ba? Yan yung prine-presenta ni Rufus Rodriguez pati yung kay Libron?

Gary: Oo nga, pero wala naman. Kay Libron, di nila makukuha si Libron, wala na din a nila makukuha.

Ruben:: Si Libron nga, hindi na nga dahil as of two days ago, naka-usap na nga raw eh.

Gary: Sinong nakausap?

Ruben:: Si Libron, naka-usap na ng military.

Gary: Sabihin mo dyan sa military nay an, wag silang masyadong makiki-alam, kasi sinampal pala si Libron eh, akin yang tao nyan eh, taga Batangas yan eh.

Ruben:: Ah ganun ba?

Gary: Oo, wag naman ganun. Bago nila gawin yung primero, sinampal pa kasi eh, kaya mangiyak-ngiyak yung tao eh. Kaya kahit paka-inin mo ng bala yun, din a magpapakita. Ngayon, itong si Rasma Ali, wala naman masasabi against kay Ma'am eh, kahit anong sabihin nila because she has not done anything except kay Wahab Akbhar. Kaya dapat si Wahab ang ma-warningan.

Ruben:: Pero, ano ba pare yung pinakikitang ano ni Rufus na ano...?

Gary: Ah, pabayaan mo siya but it does not have anything to do with the President.

Ruben:: Ibig mong sabihin yung pinakikitang dinagdagan daw yung boto ni Presidente eh...

Gary: Hindi naman nila mate-testiguhan kung hindi sa kanyang munisipyo.

Ruben:: Yung tipo-tipo diba?

Gary: Oo nga, pero ang problema nyan, wala naman kay Presidente dyan

Ruben:: Hindi bay un ang pine-presenta ni Rufus na dinagdagan?

Gary: Yung pinakita ni Rufus, tingnan natin sa Provincial Canvass, kasi wala naman nagagawa yan dun sa kanyang munisipyo. Bahala siya, kaya nga ina-ano ko sa Wa-ab, pina-aano ko kay Wa-ab ngayon, dapat si Presidente ma-kwan nya kay Wa-ab para si Wa-ab ang kumuha ng tao na yan kung hindi, pakukuha ko ang pamilya nyan.

Ruben:: Uh-humm..

Gary: Yun na ang last resort, pakukuha ko ang pamilya nyan.

Ruben:: Yun na lang ang dapat gawin dun.

Gary: oo, pero dapat malaman ni Wa-ab na si Wa-ab, kasi ang more damage will be against that Wa-ab Akbhar, not the President.

Ruben:: Bakit, naapektuhan ba yung boto ni Wa-ab?

Gary: Siya lang talaga ang ano malaking naka-pabor. Kaya kung maari papuntahin ko dito yung supervisor, patago ko rin dito sakin. Because, I want to clean out kung alin yung mga by municipality results.

Ruben:: Hindi yun nga ang nagkaka-problema dahil si Wa-ab ang nagpatrabaho nyan eh.

Gary: eh ang problema nyang si Wa-ab, gumalaw si Wa-ab nung huli na.

Ruben:: huli na nga eh, akinse na nung gumalaw si Wa-ab eh.

Gary: Alam mo si Wa-ab was working for FPJ actually.

Ruben:: Oo, nung una.

Gary: Nung malalaman nyang matatalo si FPJ, saka bumaligtad

Ruben:: Sinabi mo, totoo talaga.

Gary: Yung mga tao namin dyan, eh galit na galit sa kanya eh. Kaya ito, kung anuman basta malalaman hanggang umaga, ng magang-maga kung ano talaga ang score doon so I can tell them to get her families kung halimbawa. Sabagay medyo matindi na tokasi andun si Lumibao, andun naman si...ewan ko kung sino pang nandun, may isang colonel na nandun. Kung kailangang kunin, di kunin na nag pamilya nya. Lokohan narin lang eh, di kwan, Pero yang Rufus na yan, wala namang alam yan.

Ruben:: kaya nga, kaya nga.

Gary: Ewanko lang kung pupunta pa uli yun, pakidnap ko nalang sya.

Ruben:: Hindi naman pumupunta, pero ang balita, nandirito sa Parañaque.

Gary: Nandito na, yung ano.

Ruben:: Nandito na sa Parañaque nung pang Saturday

Gary: O sige. Basta't we'll ask somebody to look for her and then get her family, kung pwede.

Ruben:: Oo, oo

4. Conversation between Gary and an unidentified man on 31 21:38 hotel May 2004

Man: Hello sir.

Gary: Hello

Man: Sir.

Gary: Ah tawagan mo nga si Datu Buklakbun(?)

Man: Oo sir, hanapin ko siya, hindi kasi siya magsagot eh.

Gary: Kaya nga eh, baka ipakidnap ko siya, baka ipakidnap ko siya

Man: Ha, ha. Hanapan ko ng paraan para makontak siya.

Gary: Kontakin mo kasi kailangan ko siya

Man: Oo sir.

Gary: Baka gusto niya pakidnap ko siya...

Man: Oo sir, ok sir

Gary: O sige

5.Conversation between Gary and a certain Boy on or about 05 13:41 hotel June '04

Gary: Hello Boy.

Boy: Hello, sir. Si Raspa parang nandyan sa Maynila.

Gary: Nasa Maynila? Naku delikado. Hindi ba natin makontak?

Boy: Walang, walang ano..In-off ang cellphone. Pahahanap ko sa Isafp.

Gary: Ah paki kwan, delikado yan.

Boy: Oo nga, sabi ko, sabi ko sa Isafp kay Col. Hondong(?) sa Zamboanga para may bargaining chip tayo dyan, eh damputin na natin yung pamilya din nya.

Gary: Oo, oo

Boy: Para dina siya makapagsalita.

Gary: Oo nga eh.

Boy: Kasi delikado yan eh.

Gary: Pero, nagtrabaho ba talaga yan?

Boy: Nagtrabaho yan sir. Pero yung trabaho nila ano yun, limp yung trabaho nila. Ang problema ang Catangan, baka ang sabihin siguro niyan na binaliktad ni Catangan dun sa itaas, sa provincial level.

Gary: Hello

Boy: Hello sir.

Gary: Maghanap kalang yung well-meaning na kamag-anak niya. Wag mo munang pakikidnap yung pamilya. Soft touch muna na pwedeng maka-persuade sa kanya (line cut)

4.Conversation between Gary and unidentified male and personality on 07 20:40 June '04

Male: Hello sir, good evening ho. Sir yung tungkol sa party-list.

Gary: Anong party-list yan?

Male: Yung pong VFG

Gary: Veteran ano yun?

Male: Veterans' Freedom Party? Diba, meron na silang nakalusot na isa ron? Baka yung isa pwede pa nating ihabol?

Gary: Ah, hindi pwede na kasi pag-proclaim dyan, meron na kasi number of votes na inilagay namin eh. Mahirap na. Pero may nakalusot na isa. Oo, nag-proclaim na kami nung isang araw ng beynte-tres.

Male: Oho, eh mukhang meron pang isang namumurong isa, hindi ba pwede yun?

Gary: Ang hirap, kasi nung pri-noclaim naming, nakalagay na yung number of votes sa kanila eh. Alam ko yun, nakalusot yun.

Male: Yung isa, Malabo...

Gary: Hindi eh, hindi naman pwedeng ganun, kasi makakahalata nayan. Mahirap na. Mahirap kasi, nagkaroon na ng proclamation ang isa sa kanila na nilagay doon, isa lang ang qualified sa kanila.

Male: Ah isa lang ho talaga? Hindi ba pwedeng maging dalawa dahil ang boto nila medyo malaki naman yata.

Gary: Hindi. Tingnan ko yan pero kwan eh, hindi magkakaron ng ganyan dahil halimbawa, may desisyon mamaya na kung may sobrang 1 point something, baka sakali pero titingnan natin.

Male: Boss, baka pwede nating tulungan.

Gary: Oo, oo ok sige...

5.Conversation between Gary and a certain Ruben: on 07 20:38 June '04

Ruben:: Tanong ko lang pare, papano yung ano natin, sa party-list?

Gary: Hindi ko pa maa-ano kasi hanggang ngayon wala pang usapan ang mga tao tungkol diyan. Tawagan kita bukas ng tanghali kung anuman.

Ruben:: O sige.

Gary: Ano yun? Ano?

Ruben:: Yung TUCP at tsaka ALAB.

Gary: Ay! Wag mo nang dadagdagan, mahihirapan tayo nyan.

Ruben:: Hindi mas maganda kung lahat ng magkakatabi nayan eh.

Gary: Hindi kasi nag-proclaim na kami. Ang alam ng Commissioner and some other people there, mahirap ng kumuha, kasi kung kumuha tayo, yung malapit, yung hindi na mahahalata kasi...

Ruben:: Pero malapit yan ha kesa sa "SMILE"

Gary: Kaya nga, bahala na pero ang kaso, pag sabay-sabay na, sinong pagagawin mo nyan eh itong mga bata hindi na pwe-pwedeng gumalaw eh. Titingnan ko bukas kung anuman.

Ruben:: Sige, tawagan mo ko hah.

Gary: Oo.

6.Conversation between Gary and Gene on 08 13:25 hotel June '04

Gene: Boss, nakatanggap ako ng certification ngayon dito galing sa mga bata natin sa Lanao, nag-failure na naman pala dahil kay Butani. Putang-ina, sino ba yang Butani, bakit ganun yun...

Gary: Yun ang pina-alis ko.

Gene: Oo nga, bat nandito na naman, papano to?

Gary: Oo nga, bumalik na naman. Kaya nga ayaw makialam ni First Gentleman dyan. Pinasabi ko nga kay Ruben: Reyes na paalisin na nyo yan.

Gene: Putang-ina, tarantado talaga to.

Gary: Oo, pina-alis ko yan eh. Pero after three days after elections, bumalik man dyan. Ang nag__dyan si Col. Tereno thru Gen. Teron at tsaka si Gen. Quiamco.

Gene: Eh ano ba gagawin ko, gagawan ko ng memo o ipapa-reschedule, papano, gagawa ako ng memo sa inyo?

Gary: Ipa-reschedule natin

Gene: Gagawa ako ng ano ha.

Gary: Oo para sa commission en banc

Gene: Ano nangyari sa inyo. O sige, nasa meeting ka yata eh, Ok sige ok.

Gary: Mamayang hapon nandyan ako...

Gene: Yung best friend mo bumabanat na naman, putang-ina talaga itong si Pimentel

Gary: Bakit, bakit

Gene: Hindi ka ba nano-nood ng TV?

Gary: Hindi ako nano-nood.

Gene: Putang-ina, binabakbakan si Pisana

Gary: Oo nga, anak ng jueteng yan, wala ng kakwenta-kwenta yan.

Gene: Sinabi na nga na clerical error, putang-ina talagang matandang ito, 16 votes lang.

Gary: Ibigay mo na lang sa kanya.

Gene: O sige, ok, ok

7.Conversation between Gary and an unidentified male on 08 20:45 hotel June '04

Gary: Si ano?

Male: Cebu? Yung sa Governor?

Gary: Ewan ko kung kaylan aarya

Male: Pare kung anong konsiderasyon pare ha, paki-declare si Garcia ha, tinanggal siya eh.

Gary: Oo syempre, pinag-usapan natin yun eh.

Male: Basta't may sinabi naman nya kung ano raw ang konting pang for disposal na, basta.

Gary: O sige lang, ok lang Oo.

8.Conversation between Gary and an unidentified male on 08 15:33 hotel June '04

Gary: Hello

Male: Comm, tinawagan ako ni Chair dahil napanood yata si Comm. Rex tungkol ba kay Barbers, diba. May annulment kasi na fi-nile si Barbers. Tapos, di binabasa ko kasi tong petisyon niya, ang sabi nya ang canvass votes sa South OP Maguindanao 7,000 votes, sa Talitay 6,000 votes, sa Columbo 4,000. Diba mga tapos na to?

Gary: Hindi yata napasama.

Male: Patay kang bata ka. Hindi napasama? Eh papano to? Eh di talagang yari tayo nito.

Gary: Eh siguro.

Male: Naku po. Patay tayo. Akala ko tapos na to. Diba ang South OP meron double proclamation? Pati yung Talitay.

Gary: Sa Talitay meron.

Male: 6,000 daw eh, ayan o, nakalagay sa ano nya eh. Sabihin ko na lang kay bosing na talagang di nakasama?

Gary: Oo

Male: Ok boss.

9.Conversation between Gary and Cheng on 09 17:00 hotel June '04

Gary: Hello

Cheng: Hello, good afternoon bay, si Cheng po ito. Ituloy na natin yun sir?

Gary: Oo, sige!

Cheng: Ituloy natin lahat, lahat? Linisin ko lahat?

Gary: Oo. Kelangan linisin nyo na lahat. Kasi minsan bahala na kung anong mangyari. Kasi parallel move to eh. Dito sa Commission, we try to find out kung makakalusot, di ready na tayo lahat.

Cheng: Oo sir, ang problema ko dun sa ER, nasabmit na yung sa statistic record.

Gary: We will not resort to that.

Cheng: Ah, dina pala

Gary: Papalitan, then papakuhan natin.

Cheng: Ah ganon, O sige sir, di magfi-file na ko ng ER.

Gary: O sige

Cheng: Salamat po.

Gary: Ok, sige

10.Conversation between Gary and an unidentified male personality on 03 13:37 June '04

Gary: Hello

Man(Mike): Padre, yun daw sa Basilan wala nang nagbabantay pare, pinabayaan na ng mga tao. Yun nalang ang natitira eh, Basilan.

Gary: May kwan petition kasi for annulment dun

Man(Mike): Ah ganun

Gary: Sumobra masyado.

Man(Mike): Pwedeng ikarga mo naman yung 70,000 pare...(line cut)

Conversation between Gary and an unidentified male personality on 03 13:39 June '04

Man(Mike): Padre, may pag-asa pa ba tayo? Sa Basilan pala pwede pa eh. Tsaka sa Isabela.

Gary: Oo

Man: Pero sitenta mil ang kailangan pare eh. Hati-hatiin na lang yun, konti lang yun eh.

Gary: Oo

Man: Paano mo na, patotohanin mo na. Wala ng pag-asa yan. Kung ano mang konsiderasyon pakisabi lang sakin. Pare, pakisuyo lang, pakitapos nalang para yun nalang alalahanin ko sayo. Pero, marami pang natitira, pwede pang dagdagan hah.

Gary: O sige, sige.

Man: 70,000 pala ang kailangan pare

Gary: Ok sige

To be continued

 

CONVERSATIONS WITH COMELEC COMMISSIONER VIRGILIO GARCILLANO

Thursday, 06 09, 2005

Part II

Conversation between Gary and Tony on 12 10:03 hotel June 2004

Gary: Hello Tony, si Commissioner Garcillano.

Tony:Oo Garci.

Gary: Yung sinasabi na ako daw nag nagsabi na 330 million ang na-spend ni Presidente. Interview lang sa akin kahapon.. Yung sabi ko the person should file a separate statement of expenses because there is a treasurer. Bakit naman sinasabi na ako ang nagsabi that she spent the most amount.

Tony: No, no, no. The problem is like this no, Gar. Ah, according to news report... (line cut)

Continuation...

Gary: Hello. Ah tawagan kita kasi ako nga ang nag-quote dun sa newspaper issue about nung filing ni Presidente.

Tony:Eh siyempre kasi ikaw ang Commissioner eh.

Gary: Oo nga, pero hindi ko man sinasabi yung mga amount ganun, pero sabi sa akin ni Tony Vilar, dati naman daw na siya ang nagpa-file for the party and tsaka ang kandidato.

Tony:Ganun, hindi eh. Hindi lang siguro napansin yun.

Gary: Hindi eh. Pero ikaw din ang nag-receive eh. Inano nya yung fi-nile nung 1998, 1992, ikaw din daw ang nagre-receive eh.

Tony:Hindi, meron kasing ano...pero hindi eh. Nung 1992 klarong-klaro, ngayun kwan kasi...

Gary: 98 binasa niya sa akin.

Tony:Hindi lang siguro na-ano yan. Kasi diba nung 1998, wala ng nag-intidi dahil landslide si kwan, Joseph. Pero yung kay Jose De Venecia, siya mismo. Yung kay Ramos, siya din. Kina Salonga...

Gary: Pero meron siyang ifi-nile, binasa sa akin eh.

Tony:Alam mo kasi yung fi-nile nila, para sa party. Hindi candidates of the party. Yung ginastos ng mga party sa mga kandidato nila eh. So hindi lang naman yung ginastos ni Presidente, yung ginastos ng party eh. Ang magiging number 1 na issue dyan yung assumption ng office. Eh maliwanag naman sa Law eh. Every candidate or treasurer of the political party, ang deemed requirement sa Law, the political party leading candidates and every candidate shall file an itemized statement of contribution and expenditures, requirement yun sa law at may provision doon na you cannot assume the responsibility of the office unless you file a statement of contribution and expenditures. So baka magiging issue pa yan kung sinabi nila na yung fi-nile ng K4 ay kwan.

Gary: Yun nga eh, nalaman na ng iba, baka sabihin e i-demand na mag-file sya eh, baka kelangan...Si Manolo at si Dante hindi naman daw nag-prepare nyan eh. Di ba si Manolo nag-file sayo.

Tony:Oo, si Manolo at si Dante, sila nag-file.

Gary: Silang dalawa. Eh paki-kwan na lang sa kanila. I-explain mo sa kanila kasi baka ma-issue na naman yan eh.

Tony: Sigurado. Eh ang ano naman eh...xxx kasi kung ano mangyari nyan eh...

Gary: Oo, that's kwan...

Tony:Kasi hindi maging issue yung pag-assume, kasi she cannot ah, any winning candidate cannot assume without filing the necessary statement.

Gary: Yung nga, sabihin mo kila Manolo. Pati na si Dante. Kasi ini-insist ni Vilar na ganun din daw ang fi-nile 1998.

Tony:Pero sabihin mo, kaya namin sinasabi ito eh, problema ninyo ito. Mamaya eh maging ano yan eh issue yan eh.

Gary: Kaya eh..ikaw kasi ang nag-receive kay Dante at Gorospe, eh tawagan mo sila.

Tony:As far as they are concerned kasi, hindi compliance yun. Kami ang tatanungin.

Gary: Ako rin, ako rin. I am with you. Ang problema nyan, we are claiming na, Vilar is claiming that he has been doing that...

Tony:Pero kung sakali hindi napansin yun nung nakaraan, this time mahirap yan kasi she is a winning candidate eh. Magiging issue yan eh. And dapat sabihin mo sa kanila, alam nyo wag kayo gumawa ng istorya, kayo ang kawawa dayn eh, hindi kami.

Gary: Oo nga, pero dapat sabihin mo na sa kanila kasi...eh naka sinasabi sayo, ikaw rin daw ang nag-receive nung...

Tony:Alam mo kasi receiving lang yan eh.

Gary: ...later on that will call their attention at the time.

Tony:Oo, wala pa noon. Hindi inaano yan eh. Ngayon, baka mamaya matawag ng pansin kasi nalaman ng iba, di ba?

Gary: Ako, nakasabi rin ako dun, pagtawag mo, sinabihan ko si Ma'am...Aywan ko kung ano, kung anong gagawin nila.

Tony: Oo, sige.

Gary: Pero kwanan mo si Dante at si Gorospe.

Tony: Hindi compliance yun eh.

Gary: Kaya nga paki-ano mo sa kanila. Para hindi siya ma-ano. Ako ang kino-quote na ako ang nagsabi dun sa amount pero sa pagsabi ko na separate sana kay Presidente, nagsabi talaga ako dun. Pero yung sa interview mo, bakit ako ang inaano nitong is kwan?

Tony:Dinagdag nila siguro

Gary: Villaneuva.. eh ikaw na-interview di ba?

Tony:Oo, yun tungkol dun sa ten pesos.

Gary: Ten pesos per candidate?

Tony: Sa presidente.

Gary: Ah presidente?

Tony: Yung sa party five pesos.

Gary: Ok lang din naman yung amount no?

Tony:Oo, oo

Gary: O sige na, pakitawag na din man sila Gorospe at si kwan, si Dante...

Tony:Ok.

Conversation...

Tony:Hello, ang tinawagan ko nalang si Mrs. Pineda. Eh mas mabuti pa ito nakakaintindi eh. Alam yung ano eh. Ang sabi niya, Oo kelangan talagang may individual yung kwan.

Gary: Oo nga, ini-insist nila yung ginagawa nila nung araw.

Tony:Ngayon sabi niya, pinaliwanag ko, sabi niya oo naiintindihan ko yun, Sabi nya tatawagan ako ngayon.

Gary: Sana sinabi mo na tinawagan ko na rin si Ma'am. Pero sinabi ni Ma'am kahapon ok eh.

Tony:Eh kasi baka mamaya maging issue pa eh.

Gary: Oo nga wag na natin hintayin na darating sa ganyan

Tony:Kasi itong mga tao niya masyadong pabaya.

Gary: Kung ano-ano kasing pinagsasabi eh. Na ikaw din daw ang tumatanggap noon, ganoon.

Tony:Naku wala eeeh, iba noon kung ano kasi, hindi naman napansin siguro.

Gary: At tsaka hindi yun, hindi naman sya kandidatong Presidente noon, yung 2000...

Tony:Nung 1998 na kumandidato siyang Vice President, maganda yung fi-nile nya. Sabi nga ni Atty. De Mesa na ginaya na lang nya yung finile nya nung vice presidential candidate siya.

Gery: Ah nag-file sya ng separate nun.

Tony: Oo.

Gary: Eh bakit sinasabi nitong Vilar ngayon na...

Tony:Ang pumirma pa nga si Mike Arroyo.

Gary: Ang akala niya siguro ang nire-represent niya, pinapalabas niya yung fi-nile niya for the President before.

Tony:Hindi, for the party yun eh...iba yung sa party, iba yung sa president eh.. Si De Venecia nag-file din ng sarili eh.

Gary: Ewan ko si Vilar yan.

Tony:O sige, ganon nalang.

Gary: Ok sige oo.

35. Conversation between Gary and an unidentified male on 26 19:50 hotel May 2004

Gary: Nakita mo yung sa news?

Male:Alin yun?

Gary: Inilabas na nila yung napirmahan ninyo. Hindi ko alam kung official yan but I saw its really ____....

Male:Uhhh.

Gary: Eh automatic yun eh.

Male:Talagang hindi official, hindi pa dumadaan sayo eh.

Gary: Wala pa sa akin, yung isa na kay Tinong. Tsaka walang promulgation eh.

Male:Oo nga.

Gary: Hindi na maganda ang kwan. That's already making (?). Eh nakakasama, meron pa ba tayong pag-uusapan. Once they will agree to us baka maiba pa ang decision. Eh hindi maganda eh. Kaya tinawagan ko si GMA, sabihin niya si Chairman. Kasi it was not yet promulgated.

Male:But that's in favor of Padaca, hindi ba. Favor in Padaca yun ha. May laman pa yata yang isa.

Gary: Oo, Ha?

Male:Hindi, hindi...

Gary: Anak ng jueteng yan, hindi maganda. Bahala na kung mapaboran si Padaca pero wag naman ganun.

Male:Oo...

36. Conversation between a certain Commissioner and Governor on 28 12:58 hotel May 2004

Gov: Hello, hi Commissioner, si Gov. ito.

Gary: Jhun?

Gov: Oo, ya si Jhun. Ito ang kwan...

Gary: Sultan Kudarat?

Gov: Ya, oo...si Montilla. Xxx. Tulungan natin yan.

Gary: Clear mo kay Ma'am

Gov: xxx meron siyang file. Na sayo yung kwan nya eh.

Gary: Wala sa akin, baka nasa division namin

Gov: Yung papel, nasa division, oo nga, oo puro-forma lang yan...xxx(muffed)

Gary: Xxxx...Kung ano ang posisyon kasi..nagusap din kami ni Ma'am dyan, tinawagan nga ako ngayon pero hindi yan.

Gov: Tinawagan ka ni Presidente tungkol dyan?

Gary: Hindi naman tungkol dyan pero kakausapin ko din siya tungkol dyan.

Gov: Sabihin mo, yan lang ang hihilingin ko naman eh yang lang ang hihilingin ko sayo, alam mo naman hindi ako humihiling sayo.

Gary: Hindi. Naipit na ko dun sa kaso...xxx

Gov: Yung sa akin, yung tungkol dun sa akin pabayaan mo Nayan... Ok lang ako.

Gary: Ako ang tinitira dun

Gov: Alam ko binibira kayo ng NPA pati dyan ha. Alam ko yung buhay mo ang nakataya dun. Kanya ito ang ipakikiusap ko lang sayo ha, ok.

Gary: O sige basta dumating sa amin.

Gov: O sige, basta dumating saiyo, suportahan mo.

Gary: Oo...

37. Conversation between two an unidentified male on or about 24 16:00 hotel May '04

Man 1:: Hello

Man 2:: Hello, si Commissioner?

Man 1:: Yes?

Man 2:: Xxxx. Ah nag-memeting kami kanina, one of the topics...xxxx

Man 1:: Ganito, ganito. Tanggalin mo yung kay Sen. Barbers ha. Tapos wag mo ipahabol kay Biazon. Kasi kwan, may regalo para saiyo...

Man 2:: Ok sir.

Man 1:: Ha, ok sige.

38. Conversation between a certain Chairman and an identified male on or about 24 17:37 hotel May '04

Chairman: Hello pare, si Chairman to

Man: Oo, oo

Chairman: Apat na probinsiya nalang yung mga di pa pumapasok, eh baka malintikan na tayo.

Man: Bakit ilan na ang panalo nila?

Chairman: 475,000(?) na eh... 175,000 ang boto natin.

Man: 175,000 ang boto natin?

Chairman: Oo, eh kung madagdagan man lang sana ng mga 200,300 (line cut)

39.Conversation between two an unidentified male on or about 25 09:03 hotel May 2004

Man 1: (Gary): Hello

Man 2:: Hello sir, umpisahan ko na yung tampering sir hah, wala pa rito yung mga burado.

Man 1:: Sige lang, na-notifyan sila?

Man 2:: Notify na sila sir eh

Man 1:: Ah, kung na-notify sila, start. Tapusin mo na

Man 2:: Ok, yan ang gagawin ko ngayon sir, eh.

Man 1:: May mga government organization dyan nagsasabing kung di raw kita papalitan o-objectkan nila ang aking confirmation?

Man 2:: Ah ganun ba, hindi ko alam kung sino yun eh

Man 1:: Hayaan mo sila, patuloy mo, tapusin mo na.

Man 2:: Yun na nga sir eh

Man 1:: O sige

40. Conversation between Gary and John on 16 12:00 hotel June 2004

Gary: Hello John.

John: Sir, yung pong kay Mayor Tito Osang, fi-nax ko napo kay ate Virgie, tinawagan ko po. Pina-alala ko na sa kanya ito previously nung February, yung request na hinarap ni Sec. Albas hanggang Nov. 29, pero nagkaroon ng subsequent order na up to June 30. Nakiki-usap kako yun. Siya na raw bahala po.

Gary: Nasan Ka?

John: Nandito po sa office po

Gary: Nandito ko sa labas. Pumunta ko dun sandali kanina.

John: Oo nga daw sabi ni Ate Kay, sinundan nyo daw kung dumating ako dun..

Gary: Hindi tayo kasali pa roon eh. O sige, magtawagan tayo mamaya.

John: Sabi ko nga kay ate Baby, the moment na maproclaim na eh mare-point agad kayo, walang problema. At tsaka nakausap ko si Presidente, sinabi ko. Yung nga lang daw eh she is barred by the Constitution dahil baka maano na midnight appointment eh.

Gary: Oo, yun ang prohibition eh.

John: Eh ngayon after na ma-proclaim eh irere-appoint kayong dalawa. Sinabi ko eh, pinakiusap ko eh. Sabi naman eh wala namang problema ika yun, sabi ni Presidente,

Gary: Sige, thank you.

43. Conversation between Senator Barbes and Gary on 29 15:16 hotel May 2004

Barbers:Hello Commissioner. Si Senator Barbers. Meron daw order na ipalipat sa Manila yung canvassing sa Cotabato?

Gary: Wala akong alam diyan Senator. Sabi May 29. Wala naman akong napirmahan ngayong araw. Wala naman kaming pinipirmahan. Kaya nga, bine-verify ko, pero si Atty. Vidol, yung ating tao dun, hindi makontak...(line cut)

44. Conversation between Gary and Senator Barbers on 14 10:32 hotel June 2004

Barbers:Comm., good morning.

Gary: Good morning.

Barbers:Tumawag sa akin si Congressman. Salceda kagabi, panalo tayo sa Ligao ng mga 1,2. Lamang tayo ng mga 1,2.

Gary: 1,2?

Barbers:Oo, kaya maganda na.

Gary: Oo, ang problema nyan hindi ako makapag-participate ngayon kasi...

Barbers:Di bale, di bale, basta ikaw ang tumutulong sa akin wala akong problema.

Gary: O sige lang basta kayang tulungan Senador.

Barbers:Sinabi naman ano eh, nag-usap kami ni Mike. Tinawagan nya ako kanina 8:30. Sinabi ko, sabi nya "sina Garci ba tumutulong ng husto?" Oo kako, sobrang tulong kako sakin ni Garci. Sabi nya "sabihin mo sa kanilang dalawa ni Nonie wag mag-alala, kami ang bahala pagkatapos ng proclamation." Tinawagan ako, tinatanong ako tungkol sa Ligao.

Gary: Ligao, Albay?

Barbers:Oo, kaya sabi ko tumawag si Cong. Salceda, ang ginawa ko roon ginamit ko si congressman, si Gov. elect at tsaka yung Mayor. Kaya malinis tayo roon, wala tayong problema. Basta wag mo ko, kahit na hindi ka pa nare-appoint wag mo ko pabayaan.

Gary: Ah, Oo.

Barbers:Kailangan kita dyan.

Gary: _____ nyon lang ako.

Barbers:Kumusta, tumawag naba sayo si Harry?

Gary: Oo, anong bang magagawa ko, ano bang gagawin nya.

Barbers:Ok yun, ok kausap yon eh. Tsaka pag nagsalita yun totoo. Hindi yun...i-set ko bukas ng gabi, gusto mo. Darating yun bukas ng tanghali eh.

Gary: Titingnan ko lang Senador kung kwan, kasi inaayos ko muna itong mga records ko kasi ipapasa ko na sa En Banc.

Barbers:Ah Oo, di bale sabihin ko nalang pagkatapos ano. Sabihin ko nalang sa kanya? Kasi masigasig sya eh. Sabi niya, "alam mo, kilala mo naman ako, pag nag-commit ako, ginagawa ko."

Gary: Yun lang, ok lang...

Barbers:Sabihin ko nalang tapusin mo muna yung mga ginagawa mo. Basta ako wag mong pababayaan Commissioner hah.

Gary: Ok, Walang problema yan.

Barbers:Ikaw lang ang ina-asahan na gagalaw sa akin.

Gary: Ok, walang problema yan.

Barbers:O sige, thank you, thank you

Gary: Ok...

1. Conversation between Gary and Mike 08 14:33 hotel June '04

Gary: Hello, Mike

Mike:Hello Boss, boss. Tulungan mo sana na yung loyal sa atin, si Bobby.

Gary: Bobby?

Mike:Oo, Barbers.

Gary: Papano pag kayo kayo dyan?

Mike:Nag-file ng parang annulment or something. Tingnan mo kung matutulungan mo.

Gary: O sige, basta kwan talaga namang ating inaano si Bobby eh. Siya naman talaga ang atin eh.

Mike:Oo, siya talaga ang atin. Tulungan mo sana,

Gary: Ok, sige.

Mike:Thank you, God bless.

2.Conversation between Gary and Mike on 02 11:56 hotel June 2004.

Gary: Hello Sir

Mike:Sabi ni Bobby Barbers, meron paraw siyang kakasegunda Lanao del Sur, mga 27 Municipalities pa.

Gary: Alin, alin

Mike:27 municipalities pa sa Lanao del Sur.

Gary: Hindi, hindi, ang kwan dun sa Lanao del Sur, dalawang presinto sa Bayang, apat na presinto sa Madalon, isang presinto sa Kapaye. Yun lang.

Mike:Bale lima.

Gary: No, presinto lang.

Mike:Ahh, precinct lang.

Gary: Oo, wala na ngang 1,000 eh.

Mike:We don't have that kind of impression.

Gary: Wala na ngang 1,000 eh.

Mike:Umm, sabi ng xxx sa Columbio meron pa raw tsansa.

Gary: Hindi, wala na yung Columbio, magkasama na tong kwan.

Mike:Sa Kalibo wala na rin.

Gary: Sa South OP ang kwan, nilagay nila na merong 4,000 pero kahit Itaka(?) wala pa rin, hindi makahabol.

Mike:Hindi. Baka sa Tawi-Tawi makakuha pa siya ng several precincts.

Gary: Eh wala naming ano eh, ewan ko, wala naming ganun eh. Alam mo talagang inaano ko naman eh, pinagdududahan nga akong nag-kwan sa Lanao Sur eh

Mike:Oo, anak ng puta...kawawa naman...

Gary: O sige tatawagan ko sya.

Mike:Oo tawagan mo sya.

3.Conversation between Gary and Mike on 02 10:23 hotel June 2004

Mike:Hello, si Mike to. Kung pwede ho tulungan si Bobby Barbers.

Gary: Oo nga, pero mahihirapan na tayo, medyo nabuko tayo sa Lanao del Sur at hindi na makakahabol dito sa Cotabato.

Mike:Ganon ba. Baka pwede pa magawan ng paraan.

Gary: Ah ganun ba.

Gary: Nagusap na kami ni Senator.

Mike:Ok, Yun na lang.

Gary: Ok

3. Conversation between Gary and PGMA on 31, 23:17 hotel May 2004.

Gary: Hello Ma'am.

GMA:Hello, tsaka ano yung kabila, they stand to get copies of Namfrel of the Municipal CoCs.

Gary: Namfrel copies ho? Ay wala na, naman, ok naman ang Namfrel sa atin, they are now sympathetic to us.

GMA: Oo, Oo, pero we'll just have to make sure with some Namfrel in the province, pero yun nga, yun nga, when do you plan to get that.

Gary: Oho, we will get an advance copy ho natin kung anong hong kwan nila.

GMA: Oo, oo.

Gary: Sige ho.

4. Conversation between PGMA and Gary on or about 01,21:43 hotel June 2004

Gary: Hello Ma'am, Good evening Ma'am.

GMA: Hello, when they opened the ballot box of Camarines Norte, it was empty.

Gary: Um, this afternoon Ma'am? Camarines Norte?

GMA: Uhuh!

Gary: I'll call up the supervisor tonight or tomorrow Ma'am.

GMA: Uhuh, its Caringe?

Gary: Ah. Lisa Carino. Please, she's not going to do that because this guy is a straight guy.

GMA: But it was empty.

Gary: Oh yes, I'll call her up Ma'am.

GMA: Okay.

5.Conversation between Gary and PGMA on 02, 22:29 hotel June 2004.

Gary: Hello Ma'am, Good evening.

GMA: Hello, tungkol dun sa Lanao del Sur at Basilan, di raw nagma-match ang SOV sa COC.

Gary: Ang sinasabi nila, nawawala na naman ho.

GMA: Hindi nag-mamatch.

Gary: Hindi nag-mamatch? May posibilidad na hindi mag-match kung hindi nila sinunod yung individual SoV ng mga munisipyo. Pero aywan ko lang ho kung sa atin pabor o hindi. Dun naman sa Basilan at Lanao Sur, ito ho yung ginawa nila na pagpataas sa inyo. Hindi naman kwan, maayos naman ang paggawa eh.

GMA: So nag-mamatch.

Gary: Oho, sa Basilan, alam ninyo naman ang mga military dun eh, hindi masyadong marunong kasi silang gumawa eh. Katulad ho dun sa Sulu sa Max Habakon(?). Pero hindi naman ho, kinausap ko na ho yung Chairman ng Board sa Sulu, ang akin, patataguin ko lang muna yung EO ng Pagundaran na para hindi siya makatestigo ho. Na-explain na ho yun sa Camarines Norte, tomorrow we will present official communication doon po sa Senate. Doon ho sinasabing wala hong alam yung ballot box. Na-receive ho nila lahat eh.

GMA: Oo, oo.

Gary: Tumawag ho kayo kanina Ma'am?

GMA: Yeah, about that Lanao del Sur at saka Basilan.

Gary: Iaano ko na lang ho, nag-usap na kami ni Abdullah dun sa kwan kanina. About this, iaano ko ho, wag ho kayong masyadong mabahala. Anyway, we will take care of this. Kakausapin ko rin si Atty. Macalintal.

GMA: Oo, tapos nun, si uhm..sa Calanguyan, meron daw silang teacher na nasa Witness Protection Program ng kabila.

Gary: Sino ho.

GMA: Yung kabila, may teacher raw silang hawak.

Gary: Wala naman ho, baka nanakot lang sila eh.

GMA: Ano na yung sa Tawi-tawi.

Gary: Ano ho yung sa Tawi-tawi? Wala naman ho tayong kwan dun, wala naman ho tayong ginawa dun, sa mga yan. Talo nga tayo dun, talo nga si Lor dun.

GMA: Oo, oo.

Gary: Sige, aanuhin ko ho lahat ng mga yan.

To be continued

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