{"id":92642,"date":"2017-03-06T17:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92642"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:37:39","slug":"lascanas-testimony-only-for-media-mileage-sotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/06\/lascanas-testimony-only-for-media-mileage-sotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasca\u00f1as testimony only &#8216;for media mileage&#8217; \u2013Sotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92643\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17156089_1433809006643376_1019942364590162228_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92643\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17156089_1433809006643376_1019942364590162228_n.jpg\" alt=\"Last February 20, Lasca\u00f1as claimed that there indeed was a death squad and that he merely lied during a previous Senate hearing in October 2016 when he first denied its existence. (Photo: Albert Calvelo\/ Senate of the Philippines\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17156089_1433809006643376_1019942364590162228_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17156089_1433809006643376_1019942364590162228_n-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17156089_1433809006643376_1019942364590162228_n-768x585.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last February 20, Lasca\u00f1as claimed that there indeed was a death squad and that he merely lied during a previous Senate hearing in October 2016 when he first denied its existence. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/\">Albert Calvelo\/ Senate of the Philippines\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III on Monday said the Senate inquiry into the testimony of retired cop SP03 Arturo Lasca\u00f1as on the so-called vigilante group Davao Death Squad (DDS)) will only be for media mileage.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with reporters before the start of the Senate inquiry, Sotto said that was quite sure that the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs will not get any &#8220;corroborative value&#8221; from it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Talagang pang media mileage na ito. Sa tingin ko walang corroborative value kaming makukuha dito (This is really only for media mileage. I think we won\u2019t get any corroborative value from this),&#8221; Sotto told reporters in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Sotto also said that it could also somewhat be \u201centertainment value\u201d for critics of the Duterte administration.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, assured that the committee, which is chaired by Sen. Panfilo Lacson, will thoroughly review Lasca\u00f1as\u2019 testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Last February 20, Lasca\u00f1as claimed that there indeed was a death squad and that he merely lied during a previous Senate hearing in October 2016 when he first denied its existence.<\/p>\n<p>Lasca\u00f1as claimed that the death squad killed criminals and non-criminals in Davao city to maintain peace and order.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he was ordered by his colleague, SPO4 Sonny Buenaventura, to deny everything what self-confessed hitman Edgar Matobato said on the alleged existence of the death squad.<\/p>\n<p>The former cop also said that he previously lied because he feared for the life of his family but is now determined to tell the truth to clear his conscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III on Monday said the Senate inquiry into the testimony of retired cop SP03 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":92643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[10823,16192,16191],"class_list":["post-92642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-davao-death-squad","tag-senator-vicente-sotto-iii","tag-sp03-arturo-lascanas","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92642","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=92642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}