Whistleblower Jun Lozada was in tears upon his surrender Thursday before the NBI. During booking procedure, Lozada cried as he recalled a conversation with his daughter, who told him: “Gumawa ka lang naman ng mabuti para sa bayan, bakit ikaw yung makukulong?” @PhilippineStar
Jun and his brother Jose Orlando surrendered to the NBI on Thursday after the Supreme Court denied their appeal on their graft conviction over an anomalous land deal. They coordinated their surrender to the NBI as early as Monday. 📷 NBI Special Action Unit @PhilippineStar
Apr 18, 2022 • 41 tweets • 9 min read
The camp of Manila mayor Isko Moreno blames the media for making the Easter Sunday press conference of survey laggards to be an "anti-Leni Robredo" briefing, even though it was Moreno who first made the call for the vice president to withdraw from the presidential race.
In an ANC interview this morning, Aksyon Demokratiko chair Ernest Ramel said the all-male panel - which he described as the "gentlemen" Moreno, Sen Ping Lacson, and former security adviser Norberto Gonzales - was only "obliged" to make comments about Robredo because of the media
Apr 17, 2022 • 57 tweets • 19 min read
Three candidates - Manila mayor Isko Moreno, Sen. Ping Lacson, and former Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales - join forces to assure the public they are not backing out from the presidential derby.
Gonzales, former national security adviser, says there are "indicators" that there should be another contender to challenge survey frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr. @PhilippineStar@onenewsph
Apr 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
A source from a political camp said there will be no withdrawal of candidacies in tomorrow's joint press conference among Manila mayor Isko Moreno, Senator Panfilo Lacson, and two or three other candidates. @PhilippineStar@onenewsph
The press briefing will be held before noon at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati. "Presscon is a show of unity by the 4 or 5 presidentiables that they will finish the race and there will be no withdrawals." @PhilippineStar@onenewsph
Nov 1, 2018 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
In Malabon, a strange statue spooks residents especially during All Saints Day - a devil trampling on the archangel Michael inside a cage at a public cemetery in Barangay Tugatog, above the tomb of Don Simeon Bernardo (1869-1934) @PhilippineStar
Its story is as strange as its look. It is said that the demon becomes alive and walks around at night. A bead of rosary was put around the devil's arms, as if to dispel the evil in its being @PhilippineStar
Its story is as strange as its look. It is said that the demon becomes alive and walks around at night. A bead of rosary was put around the devil's arms, as if to dispel the evil in its being @PhilippineStar 