{"id":183989,"date":"2018-10-02T21:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T01:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=183989"},"modified":"2018-10-02T21:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T01:34:54","slug":"dnd-afp-cant-find-trillanes-amnesty-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/02\/dnd-afp-cant-find-trillanes-amnesty-application\/","title":{"rendered":"DND, AFP can’t find Trillanes\u2019 amnesty application"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: UNDER SENATE CUSTODY. Reporters interview Senator Antonio Trilllanes IV, with Senator Risa Hontiveros (right), as he walks along the hallway of the Senate to meet Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III to discuss the issues of his arrest on Tuesday (Sept. 4, 2018) after his amnesty has been revoked. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— The Department of National Defense (DND) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday revealed that their respective internal investigation on the supposedly missing amnesty application of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has turned up nothing.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana bared the results of the DND inquiry after Trillanes prodded him during a Senate hearing over his missing amnesty application.<\/p>\n

\u201cGusto ko lang<\/em>\u00a0sir\u00a0malaman, kasi alam nyo na naman<\/em>\u00a0sir\u00a0\u2018yung totoo e. Nag<\/em>\u00a0apply\u00a0ba ako<\/em>\u00a0sir\u00a0ng<\/em>\u00a0(I just want to know, because you know the truth. Did I apply for) amnesty as far as your investigation is concerned sir?\u201d Trillanes asked.<\/p>\n

Lorenzana first clarified that he was not knowledgeable about the senator\u2019s application as it happened before his time.<\/p>\n

He added that last August 16, he received a call from Solicitor General Jose Calida asking him if they could help produce the amnesty records.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was not asking for your amnesty application, simply the amnesty records of Trillanes et al,\u201d Lorenzana said.<\/p>\n

He said he referred Calida\u2019s staff to his staff and their initial foray turned up nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when they dug up the records at DND, they were able to produce Proclamation No. 75 issued by then-President Benigno S. Aquino III, as well as the amnesty document that was signed by then-Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin,\u201d Lorenzana said.<\/p>\n

The Defense chief said those were the only documents given by the DND to Calida.<\/p>\n

\u201cLater on, he wrote General Headquarters (GHQ) to ask for some other records like your amnesty application, which one staff of J1 (personnel directorate) certified that your amnesty application could not be found or \u2018non-existent\u2019 at the GHQ,\u201d Lorenzana told Trillanes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are the three documents that SolGen Calida got from DND and GHQ,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

When Trillanes asked if the DND has conducted its own internal investigation to ascertain if he really applied for amnesty, Lorenzana answered in the positive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did, we did senator. And in fact, we dug up,\u00a0wala namang makita<\/em>\u00a0(we couldn\u2019t find any),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we reached out to the members of the ad hoc committee on amnesty, and\u00a0wala pa silang sagot eh<\/em>\u00a0(they have yet to reply). They are not forthcoming\u00a0sa mga sagot nila<\/em>\u00a0(in their answers). Anyway, we have invited them also at the DND HQ to shed light on this missing document,\u201d Lorenzana said.<\/p>\n

It was at this point that Senator Panfilo Lacson briefly reminded Trillanes that they may be veering away from the budget deliberation, which is the purpose of the hearing.<\/p>\n

Lacson chairs Subcimittee “E” of the Senate Finance Committee hearing the DND budget deliberations.<\/p>\n

He allowed Trillanes to continue but only for brief time.<\/p>\n

Upon resumption, AFP Chief of Staff, Carlito Galvez Jr., told Trillanes that the general headquarters could not find any records of Trillanes\u2019 amnesty application.<\/p>\n

The AFP chief surmised that there could be some lapses committed in the handling of documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cSi Col. Josefa Berbigal is the one who administered your oath. Apparently, there are some lapses,\u00a0na lahat ng<\/em>\u00a0(that all of the) documentshindi naibaba sa<\/em>\u00a0(not forwarded to) J1, which is basically the repository of all documents,\u201d Galvez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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