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Ping Lacson Recalls Sandra Cam’s Courage: ‘Our Whistleblower’

Image courtesy: Bombo Radyo Tuguegarao

CEBU CITY – “She was our whistleblower.”

This was how former Senator and 2025 senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson remembered Sandra Cam, as he is saddened over her death earlier this week.

“I felt saddened when I heard the news of her death. I remember working with her when she was under the protection of the late Archbishop Oscar Cruz, who was a strong advocate against illegal gambling, particularly jueteng,” Lacson said in Filipino, in an interview on Bombo Radyo Cebu here.

Related: Ping Lacson, Naalala ang Katapangan ni Sandra Cam: ‘She Was Our Whistleblower’

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Where We Are

Speech before the Rotary Club of Manila

I feel honored today. It is good to be with you again. After all, it is not every week that one is given the chance to speak before the oldest of the country’s Rotary Clubs – certainly not the kind that Spokesman Toting Bunye has insulted.  I mean that to be the truth – not the truth that Malacanan Palace speaks and expresses each time we, Filipinos seek an explanation on Garcillano, on impeachment, on Venable and what have you.I feel honored today. It is good to be with you again. After all, it is not every week that one is given the chance to speak before the oldest of the country’s Rotary Clubs – certainly not the kind that Spokesman Toting Bunye has insulted.  I mean that to be the truth – not the truth that Malacanan Palace speaks and expresses each time we, Filipinos seek an explanation on Garcillano, on impeachment, on Venable and what have you.

The invitation of President Cesar made through fellow Rtn. Art to be your guest speaker today brings back good memories. This is the group to whom I delivered my first major address when I became Chief of the Philippine National Police in November 1999. I remember that was upon the invitation of a good friend and mentor and now a Senator and a distinguished colleague, the Hon. Alfredo S. Lim.

It was easy then to deliver my speech. There was a strong clamor for reforms in our country’s police force. In that address before you, I defined my response and vision. I remember talking about the ICU’s among the police – the inept, corrupt and undisciplined. At that time, I was already thinking of my antidote against the ICU’s. It was AID – aptitude, integrity, discipline.  Continue reading “Where We Are”