By: Tetch Torres-Tupas - Reporter / @T2TupasINQ
INQUIRER.net / 03:48 PM November 28, 2016
The burial of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos is inconsistent to President Rodrigo Duterte’s fight against graft and corruption.
Former Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo, through the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), on Monday asked the high court to reconsider its Nov. 8 decision dismissing the petitions against Marcos’ burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB).
In a motion for reconsideration, Ocampo said Duterte’s action violated Article II, Section 27 of the 1987 Constitution which requires the State to take positive and effective measures against graft and corruption.
As proof, NUPL said the Supreme Court itself on several instances, including the Sandiganbayan vs. Republic case, has forfeited $638-million in favor of the government.
“Thus, allowing Marcos the Dictator who has already been judged by the Filipino people in 1986 and even the Supreme Court as a plunderer in many cases to be interred at the LNMB on the mere reason that he, like the others, is listed as qualified in AFP Regulation G 161-375, disregards and violates not only the public purpose standard under Proclamation 86 (S 1954) but is a direct contravention and a violation of said provision of the Constitution,†the motion for reconsideration stated.
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