DILG to file sedition charges to former Anakpawis solon & 6 others after defying ECQ

Was it really a mere delivery of goods as they claim?

The Philippine National Police (PNP) will file sedition charges against former Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao and six other alleged party-list members for allegedly violating quarantine protocols.

Casilao and his alleged fellow Anakpawis colleagues (Karl Mae San Juan, 29; Marlon Lester Gueta, 26; Robero Medel, 52, driver; Eriberto Peña Jr., 60; Raymar Guaves, 21; and Tobi Estrada, 22)reasons out that they were supposed to deliver relief goods for farmers in Norzagaray, Bulacan, when they were arrested.

Former Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao(FILE PHOTO)
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In a statement on Monday, PNP spokesman Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac claimed the activists instead went to Norzagaray  for “apparent agitation and propaganda activity under the deceptive cover of a relief mission.”

As per the PNP report, the group members were stopped at a checkpoint as part of a quarantine protocol at 11 a.m. Sunday and failed to show proof of exemption or authority for their presence in Bulacan, except that they were set to deliver relief packs to their members and sympathizers in a local community.

However, as police inspected their cargo, it contained anti-government flyers, printed materials and tarpaulins with suggestive slogans that “promote the political ideology of Anakpawis, the electoral wing of the militant Kilusang Mayo Uno and  Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas.”

Charges of violation of Articles 151 and 152 of the Revised Penal Code for resistance and disobedience and conspiracy to sedition, will be filed by the PNP.

Charges for violations of Section 9 of Republic Act 11332 or the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act and Executive Order No. 2 declaring a state of public health emergency in the Philippines will likewise be charged against the party-list members.

Violation of RA 11332 has a penalty of a fine not less than P20,000 but not more than P50,000 or imprisonment of not less than one month but not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the proper court.

Casilao will also face additional charges for usurpation of authority under Article 177 of the Revised Penal Code for allegedly misrepresenting himself as a party-list representative of Anakpawis.

“Casilao is not a member of the 18th Congress as he claimed himself to be when he tried to intercede on behalf of the arrested Anakpawis members,” Banac said.

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