By BEN BALCE
Staff member
SELF-DECLARED “President” Elly Pamatong has sent an unnotarized counter-affidavit before the office of the City Prosecutor in Arayat, Pampanga Wednesday to deny the charges of usurpation of presidential authority, perjury, illegal possession of firearms and explosives filed by the police here.
In a four-color affidavit with a thick “memorandum,” Pamatong denied having possessed explosives mentioned in the police complaint against him.
Pamatong claimed that it was clearly caught by an ABS-CBN camera recording that the police planted pieces of evidence against him when they raided his United States of America Freedom Fighters of the East compound in Tablon, this city, early this month.
He also said TV camera recording also showed an police officer removing a black back bag, and without gloves, took a pistol and two grenades from the bag and laid them on the ground.
“In the alternative, it is inadmissible as evidence because it was spoiled or tampered,” said Pamatong, a lawyer by profession.
He called it a “fruit of a poisonous tree,” and the raid as “armed robbery” and “terrorism” by a 1,000-person uniformed “looters/robbers.”
The 53-page affidavit, with photos of himself and the late American Gen. Douglas Macarthur, was signed on Sept. 20, 2017 in Arayat, Pampanga.
But Pamatong wrote a footnote for the prosecutor: “Because of fear generated by martial law, no notary is willing to notarize this. I am presently sheltered in an American facility and I could not appear to have it notarized by you.”
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