Why Trillanes doesn't want Enrile in regular jail

  • 5 years ago
MANILA - A senator who has first-hand experience of being detained while in office has some advice for his Senate colleagues Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla. "I believe they just have to man up. They have to make up their minds if they want to fight this through, if they want to play that role of being innocent men being subjects of injustice or playing the role of guilty men who are going to use every loophole to get out of this. So they have to make up their minds," Sen. Antonio Trillanes said. He also doesn't favor detaining Senator Juan Ponce Enrile in a similar fashion because of his advanced age. He said senior citizens have special needs that can't be addressed in a common detention facility. "He can be detained let's say in a hospital or in a detention facility that can provide for his medical needs. I'm looking at it from a policy perspective. This is not about Senator Enrile. This is about senior citizens, how we would treat senior citizens in general," he said. ANC NEWS NOW, June 24, 2014