"Sana ho 'wag ninyo siyang galawin," Senator Leila De Lima said and appealed in public for his former driver and bodyguard 'Ronnie Dayan' (I hope you don’t touch him.), in a press conference on Saturday, August 20.
"Sana po 'wag 'nyo siyang damputin. Puwede 'nyo lang siyang damputin kung meron kayong warrant of arrest. Pero 'pag wala pong warrant of arrest, sana po 'wag siyang pakialaman," the senator added.
(I hope you don’t arrest him. You can only arrest him if you have a warrant of arrest. But if you don’t have a warrant of arrest, please leave him alone.)
It started after President Rodrigo Duterte accused the senator for having a relationship with her driver and who was helping her collecting money from detainees of Bilibid and also said that she is being "immoral."
Dayan became her bodyguard-driver ever since her early days as a private law practitioner, the senator said.
"Wala na po siya sa akin, pero meron pong communication po kami hanggang ngayon," she said. De Lima added that Dayan already resigned from the Department of Justice in 2015
"Napalapit po siya sa akin, pero kung gaano man ho kalapit siya sa akin, ipagpaumanhin 'nyo po, I don't want to touch on that muna po kasi personal po na bagay na yan, and again, ayaw kong nalilihis po itong usapin natin sa mga personal na bagay."
De Lima said that Dayan is now on fear of being killed, the latter called her 3 or 4 weeks ago and said that there is someone whose targeting him.
De Lima said that her driver is being targeted for a "raid," De Lima stated what the informants told her driver, "Papalabasin na meron kang mga armas. Papalabasin na nanlaban ka at baka patayin ka, o dudukutin ka, kasi balak nila na gawin kang witness or state witness laban sa dati mong boss na si Senator De Lima."
"Nagtatago ho siya hanggang ngayon," De Lima explained.
"Nagpapa-SOS na raw ho. Kung puwede nga daw ho, tulungan ko siya dahil sobra na ang pangamba niya. Wala na nga daw ho siyang makain."
However, De Lima reiterated and denied again as being alleged drug coddler and protector.
She strongly said, "I am willing to be shot in front of the President."
Source: Rappler