Many people are convinced that the plane crash, in which one person survived, was the result of foul play and that Robredo was intentionally killed for some mysterious reason.


Former President BS Aquino's efforts to lionize Robredo with all sorts of honors and decorations after his death, including finally his move to make his widow Leni the Vice President, were attempts to cover up the dark deed against him, on top of Aquino's own failure to give him his due as DILG Secretary. Under the law, the DILG has jurisdiction over the police and over local governments, but Robredo was denied supervision over the police, which Aquino gave instead to Rico Puno, the DILG undersecretary and his own shooting buddy.


According to uncontested reports, Puno's immediate action upon Robredo's plane crash, before his body was recovered three days later, was to have the late secretary's condo unit in Metro Manila thoroughly searched. It was not known what they were looking for, and what they found there, if any.


A deep inquiry into Robredo's death would create a precedent, which the government could follow, in the death of Ninoy Aquino. To this day, the nation remains in the dark about the brains of his August 21, 1983 assassination, which shocked the world. The knee-jerk attempt to blame it on Marcos, like the attempt to blame the 1971 communist bombing of Plaza Miranda on him, has been totally discredited by the fact that he was the first one to suffer its fatal consequences, and he was much too intelligent to engineer his own destruction and ignominy. The real culprit could probably be identified by asking the question, who benefits?, and this has not been examined sufficiently.


For the strangest of reasons, neither Ninoy's widow Cory tried to have the matter investigated during her six and a half years as President, nor his son Noynoy, during his six years from June 30, 2010 to June 30, 2016. But the Filipino nation deserves to have a more complete knowledge of its history. This is one service Leni could perform while she awaits her fate in the vice presidency.



Sources: Various

Leni should initiate a definitive inquiry into Jesse's death