Officers to testify vs Saycon.

(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Byline: Alcuin Papa, Leila B. Salaverria, Juliet Labog-Javellana and Frank Cimatu, PDI Northern Luzon Bureau

AT LEAST 10 Army captains-all classmates of the Kawal Pilipino soldiers-have volunteered to provide the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine Army information that could further strengthen sedition charges against Pastor "Boy" Saycon. This was revealed yesterday by Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Information Office chief Lt. Col. Daniel Lucero in a press conference in Camp Aguinaldo.

Lucero, however, did not give the identities of the officers who were classmates of Captains Peter Edwin Navarro, Mohammad Yusop Hassan, Philip Esmeralda, Marcos Serafica and Rembert Baylosis at the Officers Candidate School (OCS) of the Philippine Army in Tanay, Rizal. The officers claimed they were present at two meetings with Saycon and Navarro where they allegedly discussed a destabilization plot against the government.

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NBI Director Reynaldo Wycoco said on Friday that the five junior military officers and four civilians would be charged with inciting to sedition. Aside from Saycon, the civilians are Azodin Baltazar, Boy Montelibano and retired police general Pedro Navarro, a supporter of presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr.

The charges would be filed on Monday "at the latest," according to Marianito Panganiban, head of the NBI Special Task Force which is handling the probe of the Kawal Pilipino soldiers who accused President Macapagal-Arroyo of ordering the military to monitor the movements of her political rivals.