FINAL REPORT - Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Mendoza, and after him, Namfrel Lanao del Sur Provincial Chairman Hadji Abdullah
Dalidig.
We think it likewise fit to reproduce the sworn words of these latter three
eyewitnesses, unrebutted and undenied to the present time, as follows:
Affidavit of Michaelangelo Zuce dated August 1, 2005 submitted to the Senate,
stating that the “Garci Tapes” conversations were genuine because he was present on
some of the occasions when his uncle Garcillano would acknowledge President Arroyo
as the person on the other line and would immediately after the call confirm that it
was the President he was speaking with; that he was the “Louie” being referred to
therein; about Garcillano’s delivery of bribe money to local Comelec officials at the end
of his consultation meetings; about his implementation of election fraud through
delivery of false documents and bribe money to Comelec officials in Mindanao such as
election supervisor Sumalipao; and about the planning in the Greenhills house of
“jueteng lord” Bong Pineda of the January, 2004 dinner meeting of local Comelec
officials hosted by President Arroyo at her La Vista residence, whereat the latter
herself exhorted the Comelec officials to support her 2004 candidacy, and whereat
Lilia Pineda (Bong Pineda’s wife) handed to a Comelec director for distribution to the
said officials bribe money of P30,000 each --
“1. I was a Presidential Staff Officer from February 2001 to July 2004 of
the Presidential Liaison Officer for Political Affairs, Malacañang, with
Secretary Jose Ma. A, Rufino as Head of Office; and Presidential Staff
Officer 5 of the Political Coalition Affairs Office (OPCA), a unit of the
Political Affairs Office of the Office of the President, and headed by USEC
Raymundo T. Roquero, from September 2004 to May 2005. I have
tendered my irrevocable resignation and stopped reporting for work at
that Office since May 2005.
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3. The Office also presented to PGMA a special project dated 10 October
2002 signed by Sec. Rufino on the Nationwide Consultation of Election
Officers Under The Stewardship of Atty. Garcillano, a copy of which is
attached as Annex “B”, together with a proposed budget as Annex “B-1”.
The special project was divided into three (3) operations, for Luzon,
Visayas and Mindanao. We then requested funding for the project from
the President and an initial funding of P1Million was given to our Office
for the consultation of election officers in Mindanao.
4. Consultation meetings took place: (1) in Tubod, Lanao del Norte on
November 2002, attended by twelve (12) COMELEC Provincial Election
Supervisors (PES), coinciding with preparations for the Annual Sportsfest
for Regions 9 & 10, and which was also attended by myself and
Ferdinand Mahusay, Regional Political Officer for Region 9; (2) in General
Santos which was attended by twelve (12) election officials mostly PES
and including the Regional Political Officer of ARMM and myself; and (3)
again in Tubod, Lanao del Norte on 13 December 2002 when Regions 9 &
10 had the Annual Sportsfest.
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