MANCAO AFFIDAVIT-INGREDIENT FOR POLITICAL GAIN “Lacson: Not much of SC-Chief Puno's Disciple After all”

Bet no one saw it coming. None was deviously witty enough to think that ex-Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao II was staging an act with his Dacer-Corbito affidavit except for Senator-elect Ping Lacson of course. Sad to say, it was not because the Filipinos elected a “logical analyst” but because he was by far Mancao's scriptwriter and worse the impending “mistrial” producer.

Lacson knew as early as last year that Mancao was to come clean and that he would be implicating him along with 21-list of suspects under the 2000 double-murder slay. At first, it was not a cause for alarm. Besides, Mancao had pledge loyalty to him and was in fact assuring him that his “stunt” would blow-out beneficial to boost Ping's presidential candidacy. In contrast to that however, Lacson sold his own man out discretely orchestrating the whole decoy. The bait of course was setting a plot against Estrada-Lacson lie-up but all along a “recanting” scenario where Mancao was to scream- “They forced me to it”. That was by far a huge deathblow to the Arroyos commonly known to all as ganging-up against the GO, all thanks to the Lacson exposes. People with their irate would of course buy the idea of a Mancao's affidavit sell-out ang “bam!”, riddling mock and publicity trials where Ping pioneered for years in Senate floor.

What bugs the most with Lacson claiming Mancao guaranteeing him a “sound sleep” despite the criminal insuations was that the good Senator knew the affidavit would be scrapped like “junk” and hail him a hero. Ping condoned the looming “mistrial” of the Dacer-Corbito murders and he was giving him a “go-signal” that goes with his silence over the said plot for over a year. Meaning, Lacson was condoning a mock tribunal to partake making him not much of an avid defender of justice system as he so claimed.

Lacson helping-out on the Dacer case's backlash was a clear sign that he wanted it scrapped for fitting cover-up. Opposite to what the senator claims as his suppose innocence, why then would he be in cahoots with former PAOC-TF officials the evaded the trial since 2001? Are they on turf protection mission now? Are they on scripted locked-lips before as they cook-up just the right alibis that would later exonerate them from the crime? And part of this dished-out is riding with the ironic onset of political gimmickries where Ping and Erap are supposed to outwit?

The Mancao affidavit was tagged “mother of all lies” not that the 21-names were makeshift truth but the intents were twisted for the controversial 21 to get acquitted. It spurred more questions and relentless doubts. It was clearly not for judicial proceedings but for media exploitations and political drag. It bears greater political color than truth, and Lacson with his recent “Mancao-lalaruin” exposure is strong evidence.

Ping knew and kept silent because by far Mancao promised him a trial turned tribute. He was not overreacting weeks ago when the affidavit was kept from public eye, it was just part of the “acting”.