Road mishap spooks whistle-blowers’ escorts

Guns drawn, security escorts of the si whistle-blowers in the por barrel scam umped out of their vehicles yesterday morning on the way to the Senate.

A Nissan rvan and a Toyota orolla Altis had collided at the corner of a ah Sulayman and o as Boulevard at around a.m. ANC reported that the security escorts feared it was part of an attempt to harm the whistle-blowers.

But it turned out to be an ordinary traffic accident, according to Stephen ascolan, one of the lawyers of the whistle-blowers, who are under the itness rotection rogram.

“The security escorts got scared. They were ready for trouble,” said ascolan, who was not part of the convoy.