{"id":129624,"date":"2017-11-08T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T02:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=129624"},"modified":"2017-11-08T21:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T02:35:27","slug":"aquino-to-face-mamasapano-raps-with-courage-honesty-bam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/08\/aquino-to-face-mamasapano-raps-with-courage-honesty-bam\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino to face Mamasapano raps with courage, honesty: Bam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_106645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106645\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Bam-Aquino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106645\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Bam-Aquino.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Paolo Benigno &quot;Bam&quot; Aquino IV. (PNA photo)\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Bam-Aquino.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Bam-Aquino-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Sen. Paolo Benigno &#8220;Bam&#8221; Aquino IV (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino IV on Wednesday expressed confidence that his cousin, former President Benigno Aquino III, will face the graft and usurpation charges against him with \u201ccourage\u201d and \u201chonesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president was formally charged with graft and usurpation before the Sandiganbayan due to his involvement in the deaths of the 44 Special Action Force (SAF) troopers in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of violating Section 3(a) of R.A. 3019, or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, as well as Article 177 of the Revised Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Sa simula pa lang, naging bukas na ang dating pangulong Aquino ukol sa kanyang naging papel sa trahedya sa Mamasapano, kaya tiwala akong haharapin niya ang kaso ng buong tapang at katapatan<\/em>,\u201d Senator Aquino said.<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cFrom the very beginning, our former President Aquino has always been open about his role during the Mamasapano tragedy, that\u2019s why I am confident that he will face the case with full courage and honesty.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>The senator said that he believes that his cousin would \u201cspeak in the proper forum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Inaasahan naming mabibigyan na siya ng pagkakataon na ilabas ang katotohanan sa angkop na lugar<\/em>\u00a0(We expect that he will have the opportunity, to tell the truth in the proper forum),\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Inaasahan rin natin na sa huli, mananaig ang katarungan at katotohanan sa Sandiganbayan at sa puso ng mga Pilipino<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cWe also expect that in the end, justice and truth will prevail in the Sandiganbayan and the hearts of Filipinos),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino IV on Wednesday expressed confidence that his cousin, former President Benigno Aquino III, will face &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":106645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[14447,1148,31931,5773,14647,14926,13848,31834],"class_list":["post-129624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-anti-graft-and-corrupt-practices-act","tag-benigno-aquino-iii","tag-graft-and-usurpation-charges","tag-maguindanao","tag-mamasapano","tag-paolo-benigno-aquino-iv","tag-revised-penal-code","tag-special-action-force","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}