{"id":56839,"date":"2015-07-24T20:27:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=56839"},"modified":"2015-07-24T20:27:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:27:51","slug":"coloma-aquino-was-not-charged-in-saf-44-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/24\/coloma-aquino-was-not-charged-in-saf-44-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Coloma: Aquino was not charged in SAF 44 case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9617\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sonny-Coloma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9617\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sonny-Coloma-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. answers questions from the media in a press briefing on Malacanang Friday when he advised people to remain vigilant until the exit of Typhoon Yolanda from the Philippine area of responsibility. He also commended the people along the typhoon path for heeding the call of the government to evacuate and take the necessary precautions as the typhoon approached.  (Photo by Robert Vi\u00f1as\/Rodolfo Manabat\/Malacanang Photo Bureau)\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sonny-Coloma-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sonny-Coloma.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. answers questions from the media in a press briefing on Malacanang Friday when he advised people to remain vigilant until the exit of Typhoon Yolanda from the Philippine area of responsibility. He also commended the people along the typhoon path for heeding the call of the government to evacuate and take the necessary precautions as the typhoon approached. (Photo by Robert Vi\u00f1as\/Rodolfo Manabat\/Malacanang Photo Bureau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0President Aquino was not among those charged in connection with the Mamasapano operation,\u00a0Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. yesterday clarified.<\/p>\n<p>According to Coloma, this means that Aquino could not have been cleared of any wrongdoing, contrary to the ombudsman&#8217;s pronouncements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not the correct thing to say \u2018he was cleared.\u2019 He was not even included in the complaint so how can he be cleared if that was the case?\u201d Coloma pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecondly, notional or theoretically, the allegations stated in the petition by analogy does not constitute impeachable offenses,\u201d he told former senator and radio anchor Orly Mercado in his \u201cAll Ready\u201d program in Radyo Singko.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Ombudsman and spokesman Asryman Rafanan however said that Aquino was included in the list of persons placed under investigation for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut nonetheless, the office motu propio (on its own) looked into the allegations of the reports of the participation of the President,\u201d he said in a Philippine Star report.<\/p>\n<p>He added that\u00a0\u201cthe special panel found that whatever participation the President may have had in the Mamasapano incident does not amount prima facie to a criminal offense, neither was his participation analogous to any of the impeachable offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coloma, meanwhile said that the executive department respects the findings of the Office of the Ombudsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0President Aquino was not among those charged in connection with the Mamasapano operation,\u00a0Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56839","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}