She had a hand in ensuring Corona’s ouster by committing perjury when she claimed before the impeachment court that the CJ then had over a hundred bank accounts.

Daily Tribune Editorial

She must be kidding. 1Sambayan co-founder former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales said in an interview on an ally network that she had to step out of the comfort of her retirement to wade into the political arena because of what she claims as a fight against social injustices.

Morales then called on Filipinos to relentlessly resist corruption, saying that it is a duty that must be fulfilled at all cost.

It was the same rallying figure of selective justice who appealed for introspection among voters for next year’s elections, which was the stated aim of her new coalition and soon-to-be political party.

In effect, while most politicians are appealing for the country to focus on resolving the current health crisis and set aside politics for the meantime, Morales and her cousin former Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio have lit the 2022 torch for the opposition.

She is not the right person, however, to call for impartiality and justice, since she is considered one of the gatekeepers of selective justice during the term of yellow President Noynoy Aquino.

Morales also hardly speaks the truth. In one of her speaking engagements, she said, “In theory and in practice, I was independent, I am independent, and I will always be independent. I don’t care who appointed me. Fortunately, I was spared of any pressure by President Aquino.”

Morales, however, never bothered to investigate her yellow patron Aquino, particularly in the use of the notorious Disbursement Acceleration Program to bribe congressmen and senators to impeach and eventually oust the late Chief Justice Renato Corona.

She had a hand in ensuring Corona’s ouster by committing perjury when she claimed before the impeachment court that the CJ then had over a hundred bank accounts, with $12 million dollars and more deposited, despite proof that showed Corona’s lifetime investments in his account and that it was nowhere near the amount she cited.

Morales, in her twilight years as Ombudsman, filed usurpation and graft charges against Aquino in connection with the January 2015 deaths of 44 Special Action Force members at the hands of armed Muslim insurgents led by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters.

The complaint was meant for Aquino to get off lightly from demands for accountability. It ensured the acquittal of the yellow president, because as the commander-in-chief of all Armed Forces of the Philippines, he could not usurp what is his granted constitutional power.

Her successor, former Supreme Court Associate Justice and now Ombudsman Samuel Martires, sought the dismissal of the charges, arguing that the president cannot usurp any authority since he is the commander-in-chief.

The High Court granted Martires’ petition, but the current Ombudsman can still charge Aquino on more serious charges, such as reckless imprudence leading to homicide.

Morales should have stayed retired instead of unveiling to the world her legacy of selective justice.

Source： Daily Tribune 23-03-2021