Col Rabusa, Is he for real?

By J. Luna

A writer Glenda Gloria asked  in her article in the NEWSBREAK  is he for real?

He was referring to Lt. Col. George Rabusa. A PMA graduate of 1981. The toast of the headlines in the Philippines today.

She said “I’m not quite sure at this point, though his motivations should be obvious by now to any compassionate heart: he suffered a stroke and his wife is reportedly ill. He has nothing to lose, he said in an Inquirer interview, because he has already lost everything.

Ex-Army Lt. Col. George Rabusa has come out with damning accusations against his former military commanders and now threatens to link former President Arroyo to illegal use of military funds.

At a Senate hearing last Thursday, he singled out his longtime boss, former Armed Forces chief of staff retired Gen. Angelo Reyes, as a recipient of at least P50 million in pabaon when he retired in 2001.”

As a former adversary, the NPA ambushed Major Rabusa on his way to Manila while he was the chief of staff of the AFP’s 503rd Bde in Cagayan valley in the early 1990’s. The 503rd Bde commanded then by Col Diomedeo Villanueva( who became the AFP chief oof staff under GMA ) who wass in charge of the campaign of suppression in the Marag Valley from 1988-1993.

 If he was killed then, there will be no expose on the corruption in the AFP which he is claiming. As the saying goes “ dead man tell no tales.”

I can not say this is good or this is bad but the fact is that as Glenda Gloria has pointed out, “Reyes and Rabusa go a long way. The latter served as Reyes’s budget officer when Reyes once headed J2, the office of the deputy chief of staff for intelligence. Their close ties allowed Rabusa to retain his work at the now-defunct J6 (comptrollership) while enrolled for advanced schooling at the Command and General Staff College in Fort Bonifacio about a decade ago.

The fact is Col Rabusa is a witness of Senator Jinggoy Estrada. And Estrada is going to get a pay back to General Angelo Reyes for abandoning his father and going to the side of GMA in 2001.

Gloria postulates: “For what’s clear now is this: General Garcia is out on bail. Blaming their superiors for everything they have amassed, Colonel Rabusa and the comptrollers are asking us to catch the “big fish” instead. So now we are being led to other cases and other exposes.

In the meantime, the Ombudsman keeps on insisting that the plunder case against Garcia is weak.”

Forgive me for my cynicism. Something is missing in this puzzle”

The fact remains, the AFP is one of the most corrupt institution in the Philippines. To believe that it will change with the new dispensation is to believe that hell freezes over!

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