‘WHY WAS THIS INFORMATION SHARED WITH SOME SENATORS AND NOT OTHERS?’
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano released a statement on Tuesday, addressing the alleged threats to the Senate security.
“And we must be candid about the source of this 'threat.' It did not come from the Senate’s own Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, the office constitutionally charged with protecting this institution. It came from the NBI—and any honest accounting requires us to weigh that source carefully,” he wrote.
In an interview with DZRH, acting Senate President Win Gatchalian said that he received information from the National Bureau of Investigation about security threats in the institution.
“This is the same NBI whose personnel, only weeks ago, attempted to prevent an elected Senator from performing his duties, physically assaulted a senate employee, and recklessly provoked an armed confrontation with our own Senate security inside these very grounds—an incident in which shots were fired within the home of the legislature itself,” Cayetano added.
He also questioned the timing of the said threat, saying that when the security threat was “briefed to some and withheld from others... it becomes a political instrument.” (Facebook/Alan Peter Cayetano)