The camp of former vice presidential candidate Walden Bello on Monday referred to as on Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla to “walk the talk” in dashing up the justice system because it urged him to behave on a petition for evaluate filed in August 2022.
Bello’s Legal Defense Committee stated the petition for evaluate on Bello’s cyber libel case was dismissed on August 29, 2022 “based on mistaken and trivial procedural grounds.”
The camp then filed a movement for reconsideration on August 31, 2022 and an pressing movement to resolve the petition on January 16, 2023.
“Walk the talk, Justice Secretary!” the committee stated in an announcement.
“The Justice Secretary has vowed to speed up and unclog the notoriously slow justice system of the Philippines. In that regard, he has filed DOJ Circular No. 008… and DOJ Circular No. 027… Such resolutions are good in theory, but useless without practice,” it added.
The committee is referring to the Department of Justice round ordering its prosecutors to advocate the withdrawal of pending felony circumstances in first-level courts that don’t have any possible trigger with affordable certainty of conviction.
According to the committee, it can exhaust all authorized means in Bello’s case.
“We invite the Secretary of Justice to make a strong stand in support of those principles by acting favorably on our petition,” it stated.
The cyber libel criticism was filed towards Bello by former Davao City chief info officer Jefry Tupas in March 2022.
Bello, additionally a former party-list lawmaker, earlier stated in a Facebook put up that Tupas was “nabbed at a beach party where she and her friends were snorting P1.5 million worth of drugs.”
Tupas, who admitted to attending the occasion, stated she left after consuming and previous to the operation that occurred, the place the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency seized P1.5 million value of medication.
GMA News Online has reached out to Remulla for his remark however he has but to reply as of posting time. —Joahna Lei Casilao/KBK, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
