I AM certainly not a lawyer and much less remotely connected with the judiciary and actually have no objections or even comments on their latest judgment that ex-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has nothing to answer for in the case of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes fund transfer or allocation or re-aligning, whatever that was.

But as a taxpayer and a Filipino citizen, I do question the timing of the ruling, late in the day, after four years of arrest, with no reply or action to all the petitions of the respondent to act on it.