Former Senator Rene Saguisag
OPINION
COMMENTARY: Congress and the Iglesia ni Cristo
Congress has been known to probe taho and Brunei Beauties.
It may not want though to touch the INC with a one-hundred- foot pole with the 2016 polls so near.
In 1987, I was doing well in the senatorial polls. I was invited by the INC to the Temple, known to stroke perceived winners, presumably with the best of intentions.
I was reluctant but my advisers said, “what’s to lose?” I went, but it was one reason I vowed never to run again.
Yet, I do not forget, and will always be grateful for, INC honcho Mr. Bienvenido Santiago commending me for my defense of Erap and the constitutional process in 2001, right after a Monday TV talk show following the power grab in infidelity to the fundamental law the Saturday previous.
I was marching in Metro Manila to the beat of a different drummer, the story of my life. I was getting hammered and pilloried from pillar to post by the “civil society.”
In 1986, we awed the world, ousting a dictator peacefully; in 2001, we puzzled it, ousting a duly-elected Prez; from where I sat, a Dark Decade ensued, for which only Prez Cory and Jun Yasay have had the grace to apologize.
The INC should allow the PNP, NBI and the Commission on Human Rights to enter, interview people and generally look into the controversy upang makareport kung may karapatang pantao na linalabag.
Kung wala naman, well and good; kung mayroon, proper charges should be instituted, with due process observed. Life and liberty may be at stake here.
Kung walang katiwalian, magkaalaman. Where’s the fire?
Doctrine we may not intrude into. Extravagance? Purely intramural. Thickets not to enter into.
Wotta way to mark the INC’s 101st anniversary.
Rene Saguisag is a former senator who authored RA 6713, The Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Government Officials and Employees.
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