The Corona impeachment trial is currently fixating the entire country because of the many aspects of the case where the Senate is in a dilemma to go head on against the Supreme Court or not.
The truth of the matter is — even if the Supreme Court granted him the TRO preventing the Senate from examining his dollar account, the prosecution team was able to show, through his peso accounts, that Chief Justice Renato Corona failed to truthfully disclose the correct figures in his SALN. The discrepancy is big enough that you cannot just shrug it off as a simple mistake but a blatant mis-declaration.
Corona claims that the money he and his wife have is fruit of their hard work over the years and living a simple lifestyle. If it is indeed product of honest, hard work, why didn’t he declare it truthfully in his SALN? Why go to his Supreme Court buddies and ask them to hide his dollar accounts behind a TRO? Isn’t that already an indication of guilt? If an honest man has nothing to hide, why does he have to resort to legal remedies? Clearly, this isn’t the case.
I just hope that he spares the entire country from going into political chaos because of his unwillingness to quit from office. In this time and age, it is difficult to find persons who are willing to sacrifice personal ambitions for the good of the country and Chief Justice Corona isn’t one of them.
In a dissenting opinion written by Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, he said “Chief justice Corona has the ‘obligation’ to disclose these foreign currency assets to the people, who have ‘the right to know’ his assets.” Source: Inquirer.net
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