QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA – The announcement of former Supreme Court Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales as the new Ombudsman drew an interesting reaction from Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
Morales’s appointment was announced during President Benigno Aquino III’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) yesterday.
Interviewed by the media after the SONA, Trillanes said “he will be depending on President Aquino to pursue goals of swift and honorable justice.”
Trillanes said it was Morales who had barred him from attending Senate sessions after he won the elections in May 2010. The elected senator was still on trial for the infamous Oakwood mutiny in Makati City in 2003 and another standoff at the Manila Peninsula in 2007 also in Makati City.
Morales ruled against Trillanes to serve his function has as senator.
However, Trillanes was granted a provisional release last December 2010 by the Makati City Regional Trial Court pending an amnesty for police and military personnel involved in coup attempts during the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Notwithstanding the appointment of a former Supreme Justice who denied his freedom, Trillanes noted that the President’s SONA gave members in the military and police some hope that their lives will be bettered and that they won’t have to resort to military uprising.
Trillanes cited President Aquino’s housing programs for police and military personnel, in addition to the acquisition of several helicopters, patrol seacraft, and armaments for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP).
He also noted on the inclusion of a Hamilton-class cutter, which has a 76 millimeter artillery canon. The ship, decommissioned in the US, is already on its way to the Philippines and will be renamed BRP Gregorio del Pilar.
Trillanes added that there are still reforms to be made under the Aquino administration and is calling for people to continue its watch over the progress of these programs.
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