In Mike Arroyo’s payroll
He said that in coming forward, he only wanted to help President Benigno Aquino III bring justice and order to the country. “I do not ask for anything in return; nobody promised me anything or instructed me to make this narration,” he said.
The whistle-blower’s handlers, who gave the Inquirer a copy of the affidavit and the deposit slip, said the single transaction proved that Libarios was in Mike Arroyo’s payroll.
The handlers said the deposit slip would also explain Libarios’ unequivocal support for impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona, who was appointed to the post by then outgoing President Arroyo.
One of the articles of impeachment against Corona pertains to his “partiality and subservience in cases involving the Arroyo administration from the time of his appointment as Supreme Court associate justice up to his appointment as Chief Justice.
‘In Charter’s defense’
The IBP under Libarios earlier denounced the 188 congressmen who signed the impeachment complaint againt Corona.
“We’re here not in defense of the Chief Justice. We’re here in defense of the Constitution,” Libarios said.
A number of IBP local officials and members have protested the stand made by the IBP leadership, claiming that Libarios and the organization’s governors had no business making political statements and taking Corona’s side.
Libarios, a former representative of Agusan del Norte, served as a member of the prosecution panel during the impeachment trial of then President Joseph Estrada, who was eventually ousted and replaced by Gloria Arroyo.
During Arroyo’s term, Libarios was appointed a member of the government’s peace panel that negotiated with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. He was elected IBP president in December 2010."
