Former Senator Leila de Lima expresses her unwillingness to forgive former President Rodrigo Duterte for what she believes were politically motivated charges against her. She emphasizes the importance of holding those responsible accountable for the injustice she faced during her imprisonment.
Former Senator Leila de Lima said she has yet to forgive former President Rodrigo Duterte for what she said were trumped-up, politically motivated charges against her. “I have been praying to God to give me, grant me the grace to forgive that man (Duterte), because I am not ready to forgive him at this point,” De Lima said. De Lima —out on bail after almost seven years in prison — said that she never lost hope while she was incacerated.
“The taste of freedom is so precious, There’s no substitute for freedom, really,” she added“It cannot be that nobody is answerable, especially those who made a mockery of the justice system,” the senator’s spokesman, Dino de Leon, told ANC, quoting De Lima. “Those people who authored this frame-up should be held to account. Those who are engaged in political persecution should be held to account,” he said, again quoting the senator.“I strongly asserted that those who coerced witnesses into providing false testimony should be held accountable for the unjust imprisonment of former Senator Leila De Lima,” he sai
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