TACLOBAN
CITY, Oct. 1 (PNA) - Legislators who are planning to show the alleged sex video
of Senator Leila De Lima at the House of Representatives’s public hearing
should think twice, Senator Juan Edgardo Angara said on Friday.
Angara said
that as a form of decency, legislators should play the video in private and not
in a committee hearing covered by the media.
“I think
they should think of it carefully. If ever they decided to watch it, maybe they
can do it in private. When it is covered by the media, it is shown to children
in news programs and it doesn’t set a good example,” Angara said.
House
Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said the supposed video involving De Lima and her
former driver Ronnie Dayan was relevant to the House Committee on Justice's
probe on the proliferation of drugs inside the New Bilibid Prisons to determine
if they really had a relationship.
The plan has
been receiving negative response, saying that showing the allege sex video is
disrespectful and unlawful.
Among those
who oppose the move to show the alleged sex video are the lady members of
Senate who said that it will violate Republic Act 9995 or the Anti-Photo and
Video Voyeurism Act and members of the House of Representatives should have
sympathy to women and learn not to meddle with others personal life.
Female
members of House of Representative, in a statement, also called for members of
Committee on Justice and the leadership of the House to let “interparliamentary
courtesy and decency prevail in the ongoing investigation on the drug trade in
the New Bilibid Prison.”
But House
Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aquirre II defended
their plan, saying that there was nothing wrong with it and this would help
them establish the involvement of the two in the illegal drug trade inside New
Bilibid Prison.
Angara is
hopeful that the ongoing investigation on illegal-drugs trade and
extra-judicial killings should lead to the reform of the present justice system
of the country instead of bringing out personal issues.
“A lot of
people here feel that they won’t get justice through the court. If ever, it
would be a delay justice or a justice that is susceptible to be bought or sold
to the highest bidder… this is the serious problem that we should be
confronting,” Angara said.
Angara
visited Tacloban for a speaking engagement for the 6th Regional Business Summit
held at the Eastern Visayas State University attended by college students from
private and public tertiary education institutions in Eastern Visayas. (PNA)
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