{"id":14497,"date":"2014-06-11T00:11:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14497"},"modified":"2014-06-12T12:53:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T04:53:56","slug":"enrile-ive-already-packed-my-things-to-bring-to-camp-crame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/11\/enrile-ive-already-packed-my-things-to-bring-to-camp-crame\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrile: \u201cI\u2019ve already packed my things to bring to Camp Crame.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile. Photo by Lilem Uy \/ PCIJ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce-Enrile says his bags are packed, and he\u2019s ready to go. Not on board a jet plane, as the famous lyrics would have it, but to jail.<\/p>\n

When queried by reporters on Monday as to whether he would resist arrest, Enrile said: \u201cWhy should I resist? I am a lawyer; I know the process, why should I resist? I have no reason to resist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been prepared since several days ago. I\u2019ve already packed up my things to bring it to Camp Crame if that\u2019s where we are going to be confined,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He made these statements in response to questions about the looming issuance of a warrant of arrest against him and other personalities charged with plunder at the Sandiganbayan.<\/p>\n

The Senator, who is further along in years, added that he is not ready to go to jail, but also to die there.<\/p>\n

When informed of co-accused Senators Jose \u201cJinggoy\u201d Estrada and Ramon \u201cBong\u201d Revilla Jr.\u2019s appeal to spare him from arrest, Enrile replied: \u201cI thank them for that but I\u2019m prepared. Even if I\u2019ll die in my cell, it\u2019s okay. At my age, I got through life already.\u201d
\nEnrile added that whether the arrest would be done inside or outside the Senate, he would not mind either scenario.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was served the warrant here in the senate in 1990. It was here in the Senate that I was arrested. The second time I was arrested in 2001 was at my house\u2026\u201d he pointed out.
\nHowever, he also said that he and his lawyers would exhaust all available means so he could defend himself.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that the filing of cases in court would give him and his former chief of staff, Atty. Jessica \u201cGigi\u201d Reyes,\u201d a chance to prove their innocence.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026And we\u2019ll have a chance to show that Mrs Reyes, my staff did not receive any money for me or for her and so it\u2019s good that we are given the opportunity to use the proper forum to discharge all of these speculation, all of these charges, all of these things that are being thrown at us,\u201d Enrile explained.<\/p>\n

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