Following the highly suspicious collapse of the warehouse ceiling of Smartmatic in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, former MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino urged the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) to investigate the strange incident which took place on December 30, 2016, before New Year’s Eve.
The ceiling collapse incident damaged the Memory Configuration Room (MCR) of Smartmatic and Comelec, affecting the servers used during the May 9, 2016 Elections vital data subject of the election protest by former Senator Bongbong Marcos against Vice President Leni Robredo and Tolentino against Leila de Lima.
Tolentino in his motion before the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET), likewise request the help of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct a thorough probe of the said almost New Year’s Eve abnormal incident to find out the truth involving the same.
Tolentino expressed dismay as to why the Comelec informed the SET of the said incident only last January 16, 2017 when it asked the tribunal to “reboot, conduct diagnostics and shut down the servers” covered by the election protests to determine the extent of damage to the data contained in the servers.
Tolentino wants a determination of the “true circumstance attendant to the: (a) supposed sudden collapse of the roof of the Memory Configuration Room (MCR); and (b) immediate shutdown of the server units, before allowing the Comelec to reboot, conduct diagnostics thereon, and shut down the server units.”
“This is highly dubious and further cast doubts on the integrity of the data of the last elections. I am sure there are CCTV footages of the Smartmatic warehouse,” Tolentino concluded.
