Senator Leila de Lima, who is currently detained, took to Twitter on Monday to express her feelings after two key witnesses in the drug allegations filed against her recanted their claims.
“Mahigit 5 taon na akong ipinakulong at naghihintay sa pagkakataong ito. Mahigit 5 taon ng inhustisya. Sa kabila nito, nagpapasalamat ako sa lalong pagtibay at paglabas ng katotohanan na ako ay inosente, at kung sino ang mga nagsabwatan para ako’y siraan, gipitin at patahimikin,” De Lima said in a tweet.
(I have been incarcerated for over five years and am waiting for this opportunity. More than five years of injustice. Despite this, I am grateful for the further confirmation and release of the fact that I am innocent, and who conspired to discredit, harass and silence me.)
The lawmaker expressed her gratitude for the recent developments and hoped that others would follow in the footsteps of the two significant witnesses who recanted their charges against the senator.
“Five years too late but still appreciated. Sana makonsensya na rin lahat ng nasangkot sa gawa-gawang kaso laban sa akin. Patuloy po ang laban natin para sa katotohanan at hustisya,” De Lima said in another tweet.
De Lima believes justice will be served even if 5 years too late
(Five years too late, but still appreciated. I hope everyone involved in the fabricated case against me will feel guilty. We continue to fight for truth and justice.)
“It appears, after all, that justice will still be served, no matter how late. Five years too late. But indeed, Truth often bides its time. It patiently waits and is never vanquished,” she added.
Rafael Ragos, a former Bureau of Corrections officer who testified against De Lima, has recanted his assertion that she got millions of dollars from the jail drug trade.
He also claimed that then-Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre threatened him into filing false accusations against her.
Ragos stated that De Lima should be free of the drug accusations for which she has been held since February 2017.
Before this, self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa recanted all of his claims against De Lima last week, but the Prosecutor General indicated that his statement does not influence the case because he is not a government witness.
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