THE IGLESIA Ni Cristo assembly is a strong statement against President Aquino, Mar Roxas and the Liberal Party’s attempt to use the church’s internal issues as leverage to pressure the INC to support Roxas and the LP’s kulelat bid.
The INC itself has condemned the “special attention” that Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has given to the illegal detention complaint against its key ministers, saying that the LP is using the rift within the church, hoping that the INC leadership would “seek help” from the administration in exchange for their support for Roxas’ presidential bid.
This is not hard to believe. It is no secret that Mr. Aquino and the LP have used the Department of Justice against political opponents while protecting its own allies in the past, as was the case during the Mamasapano probe and in the pork barrel scam.
The corrupt and opportunistic LP, P-Noy, Roxas and De Lima hope that they could turn INC’s crisis into a political advantage but the plan is now exploding in their faces.
—VENCER CRISOSTOMO, national chair, Anakbayan, anakbayan.media@gmail.com