Jueteng whistleblower asks for protection from DOJ

A day after linking new Philippine National Police chief Deputy Director General Raul Bacalzo to jueteng, "witness" Sandra Cam sought protection Thursday from the Department of Justice (DOJ). "Humihingi ako ng security…. Ikaw bilang babae at Secretary of Justice ... sana po sa oras na ito mabigyan mo ako ng security (I am asking for security. I hope the Justice Secretary, being a woman like me, can give me protection)," Cam said in an interview on dzRH radio. She also appealed to President Benigno Aquino III to ensure the protection of whistleblowers so they can expose supposed anomalies without fear of reprisal. Cam, who testified in Senate hearings on alleged jueteng payoffs in 2005, accused Bacalzo of receiving payoffs from jueteng, an illegal but popular numbers game. In an interview on GMA News' Unang Balita, Cam recalled that during the Senate hearings, witness Wilfredo “Boy" Mayor said that a certain “Boy Tangkad" delivered jueteng money to Bacalzo. Unang Balita quoted Cam as saying that Boy Tangkad is a jueteng collector with nationwide operations.
Mayor was killed last February 2, in Pasay City. Also in the Unang Balita interview, Bacalzo denied Cam's allegations. He claimed he does not know Cam, and that he was stationed in Camp Crame for the past nine years, implying that he could not have received jueteng payola while assigned in Crame. Bacalzo challenged Cam to take her allegations to the “proper forum," and that he was willing to submit to an investigation. — LBG/RSJ, GMANews.TV