Ruby Tuason on motive for surfacing: I want the best for this country

She admitted that she does not want to live her life inside the jail but that is not her only motivation.

 

"Though there is truth in my desire to not live what I have left of my life in jail ... Having already left the country and assuming my intentions were merely to escape time in prison I could have easily done so by not returning home like much of those that came before me. Despite the ease of that option, I returned to my country," she said.

 

She said that she returned to the country "in hopes of absolution for my wrongs by exposing what I do know of the people who root the corruption of this country."

Extortionist?

"Yes, I asked him kung ano ang maitutulong niya sa akin, an inquiry faced with rejection and proof of a spoiled friendship. After all I was once willing to stand deathrow because of my trust in his family, now I risk my life only for the Philippines," she said.

 

She also admitted she was motivated by the commissions given to her by Napoles.

 

"The mistake was grave and selfish. That decision haunts me with regret, my conscience can no longer take it," she said.

 

Tuason said she applied to become a state witness in full knowledge of the risks inolved in doing so.

 

"I opened my life to the scrutiny of the public entrusting the Philippine criminal justice system. I risked my personal safety without any promise of immunity. As you all well know, my admission to the country's Witness Protection Program is merely provisional," she said.

Tuason affidavit