Why Ronnie Dayan Slapped In The Face By De Lima?

Ronnie Dayan, the former bodyguard and alleged bagman of Senator Leila De Lima, claimed on Thursday that the lawmaker once slapped him for supporting President Rodrigo Duterte in the May elections.

"Noong pumunta po ako sa Maynila, may suot akong baller dito (wrist) at saka dito sa paa. Pagkatapos noong nakita niya, pak, ginanoon niya ako... Pinalo niya ako dito (pisngi)," Dayan said.

He said he then told De Lima, "Ito ang Presidente ko e. Ito ang idol ko namin sa Pangasinan."

An irked De Lima allegedly told him, "Mag-iidol ka rin lang sira-ulo pa."

"Ang sagot ko naman po, walang basagan ng trip," Dayan shot back.

Watch His Statement About Slapping

Dayan: I had no influence over De Lima

He also said on that he had no influence on her decisions.

"Hindi ko po siya maka-ano sir, kasi kung minsan talagang siya lang ang nasusunod dahil siguro po wala siyang tiwala sa akin dahil sa kalagayan ko," Dayan said.

(She gets her way, maybe because she doesn't trust me, because of the way I am.)
De Lima, Dayan said, believes her siblings, mother and former husband more than him.

"Pag ganyan sa mga matataas na bagay out na ko diyan sir," Dayan said.

(I'm shut out from big issues.)

Dayan said he started a romantic relationship with De Lima in 2007 but began living with the senator like a “married couple” only three years later.

The Driver-Bodyguard: Scorned Dayan recounts De Lima's 'betrayal'

Dayan, 44, was visibly thinner when he faced the House of Representatives on Thursday, fatigued from months in hiding after Duterte said he was De Lima’s link to detained drug lords to help fund her campaign.

It was “true love” that was as powerful as a Signal 5 typhoon, which De Lima betrayed, Dayan said.
Dayan accused De Lima of dumping him for another bodyguard, Joenel Sanchez.

"Kesyo hindi na daw kami masaya sa pagsasama namin, lagi kasing bangayan, at laging nag-aaway kami," he said.

(She said we were no longer happy, that we were always bickering, always fighting.)

"Kasi po sir una ako tapos naramdaman ko rin na may relasyon sila ni Joenel tapos ito naman si Warren kaya parang nasa isip ko uubusin niya kaming mga security niya," he said.

(I was the first, then I felt she had a relationship with Joenel, then Warren, I thought, she must really have a thing for her security.)

Watch Dayan Statement

WOMAN IN LOVE

De Lima owned up to the affair one week before Dayan’s arrest, saying it was part of her “frailties as a woman.”

“We became so close. That's it. I trusted him. Siyempre, naano po ang loob ko (I fell for him),” she said in an televised interview with Winnie Monsod.

“Siguro po ako sa sarili ko 100 percent na wala akong tinatanggap at wala akong papayagan na maging bagman ko [kahit] sino man siya,” she said.

(I can speak for myself, 100 percent, that I did not receive money, nor did I allow anyone to be my bagman, whoever he is.)

LOVE STORY

Dayan said he met De Lima at her private law office in 2007 when he applied for a job as driver-bodyguard. Their professional relationship blossomed into love four months after, at around the same time she was becoming a household name for handling election protests.

Dayan said De Lima's family knew of their relationship, so did his children, who called her TL or Tita Lei.

He said they moved in together in Paranaque City in 2010, after then President Benigno Aquino III appointed her as justice secretary, following a 2-year stint at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) under the Arroyo administration.

Watch Bayaw ni Dayan

De Lima, Dayan said, gave him P2 million to build a house in his hometown of Urbiztondo.
While Dayan has substantiated some of Duterte's allegations against De Lima, the senator has not spoken ill of her former lover.

On Wednesday, De Lima described the accusation of Dayan that she received money from drug lord Kerwin Espinosa as "absolutely untrue."

She insisted that Dayan was being forced to lie against her.

Dayan, just hours after he was arrested in La Union, claimed he turned over money from suspected drug lord Kerwin Espinosa to De Lima five times in 2014, or 2 years before the 2016 elections.

But De Lima said Dayan was no longer under her employ then.
“So how could I have ordered him to get money from Kerwin? Kaya lang, syempre, and as expected, napilitan na rin si Ronnie magsinungaling,” she added.

In an interview with ANC before Dayan surfaced, De Lima said she was "very close" to her former driver and refused to link him to any wrongdoing.

"As I am telling you, I don’t believe that he is collecting money. Definitely, whether or not he is collecting money, I don’t know about that. I did not know about that," she said.

Bloggers POV:

Really madame? If I will believe on you, saying that Dayan wasn't your employee and not ordering him, then what is the meaning of this texts? Why are you intervening mr. Dayan to go to inquiries if you are not hiding any illegal acts?

Words can Lie but Evidence Don't!