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Angue urged to execute affidavit regarding ‘Hello, Garci’ scandal


An election watchdog on Monday urged Rear Admiral Feliciano Angue to execute a sworn affidavit containing his knowledge on the purported rigging of the 2004 elections. “If I were to be asked, executing a sworn affidavit would be the best advisable thing to do. This way he and his statement would be well-protected no matter what," said Henrietta de Villa of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV). De Villa said a sworn affidavit would also show that Angue is serious in really determining the truth in the alleged manipulations of the 2004 polls. Last week, Angue, current commander of the military’s National Capital Region Command (NCRCom), bared alleged attempts to rig the results of the 2004 elections in Tawi-Tawi, where he was then chief of the Navy’s Task Force 62. Angue’s statement was reportedly deleted in the report by the Mayuga Commission — the military fact-finding panel that investigated the alleged irregularities in the 2004 elections — as it would supposedly pin down the military officials involved. The alleged irregularities in the 2004 elections were bared in the so-called Hello Garci tapes, which contained alleged wiretapped conversations between a woman believed to be Mrs. Arroyo and a man believed to be then Elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. [See: Hello, Garci timeline.] De Villa asked the Aquino administration to fast-track efforts to re-open the probe on the “Hello Garci" scandal, saying there is already a renewed public interest in the controversy. “They gave the public the renewed hope for a closure on this matter and they should do it soon," she said. Mrs. Arroyo’s camp has repeatedly denied that the 2004 elections were marred with fraud. President Benigno Aquino III has already formed a Truth Commission which will investigate the “Hello Garci" scandal and other unresolved controversies under the nine-year Arroyo administration. De Villa, however, cautioned the government from sacrificing the investigation from speed with accuracy and firmness of their evidence. — KBK/RSJ, GMANews.TV

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