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DFA to take lead on Veloso case-Ople
By Nidz Godino
“It will be the Department of Foreign Affairs who will be taking the lead primarily for two reasons… it has institutional merit and knowledge on status of the case; and I am pretty sure Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles will agree with me on the importance of speaking with one voice for a case that has such… very sensitive dimensions,” Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople said in a press briefing the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will take lead in handling the case of Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipina who is on death row in Indonesia due to drug-related charges.
“The DMW will defer to the DFA and I am sure Secretary Enrique] Manalo… I am sure that he will be, at the appropriate time, open to saying more about this case,” she stressed.
Ople recalled Veloso parents’ letter to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., asking him to bring Mary Jane home, was brought to her office and that she had transmitted it to the DFA.
Ople was optimistic that DFA chief Manalo would talk with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. about Veloso’s case.
“Ang usapan kasi namin ni Secretary Manalo, siya na ang bahalang mag-ano… I am pretty sure naman na mag-uusap sila ni Pangulo,” she said.
Ople also asked for prayers for Veloso’s family and she insisted DFA was utilizing “diplomatic track” on the case.
“Alam mo, I think, what’s important is that we just keep praying, kasi may diplomatic track, pero mayroon ding divine track…iyong divine track is that of prayers…so, let’s just continue to hope and pray with the family,” said Ople.
“Hindi naman nagtatapos sa visit iyong anumang pag-uusapan tungkol kay Mary Jane…kaya nga diplomatic track ang ginagamit ng ating Department of Foreign Affairs,” she added.
For her part, Press Secretary Cruz-Angeles cannot officially say if Veloso’s case would be tackled by Marcos before Indonesian officials during his state visit.
“It’s always an issue, perhaps it will be broached by both parties…by one or both countries…we’ll have to see… I understand it’s, well since pending issue, it may be inescapable. ..we will announce if it is taken up,” she said.
Angeles stressed that the matter was sensitive and the government could not say more than that.
“We cannot even guess as to why, but because it is of such sensitive nature then we proceed with deliberation if we proceed at all… I am not saying that we’ll be proceeding with anything…but the President is aware of the issue…beyond that, we cannot discuss,” Angeles said.
Veloso is currently in detention in Indonesia due to drug trafficking charges. She had denied charges against her and insisted that her recruiters tricked her into bringing narcotics into Indonesia by giving her suitcase that contained illegal drugs in its seams.
More than 2.6 kilograms of heroin was found in her luggage at Yogyakarta Airport in 2010. Veloso’s recruiters, Maria Cristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao, were charged with human trafficking, illegal recruitment, and estafa cases.
In April 2015, Veloso was supposed to be executed by firing squad but last-minute appeal from then President Benigno Aquino III and the arrest of the Filipino’s recruiters in the Philippines prompted Indonesia President Joko Widodo to spare her life at the 11th hour.
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