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If it’s a bribe? RETURN MONEY!
« on: October 22, 2007, 03:32:40 AM »
If it’s a bribe?
RETURN MONEY!

“All those who received must return the money, if it was a bribe and not intended for projects.”

Despite radio survey results saying people don’t believe Bohol officials did not receive money from the recently exposed Malacañang bribery, Gov. Erico Aumentado reiterated what he said.

“Wa jod ko kadawat bisan usa ka dako gikan sa Malacañang (I did not receive a single centavo from Malacañang).”

This was the public statement made by the governor during his regular Friday morning radio program Governor’s Report.

Aumentado said he was not with the meeting of Pres. Arroyo with the congressmen last Thursday.

He was attending the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) chairmanship turnover Thursday noon. From there he rushed to catch the 2:30 afternoon Philippine Airlines flight to Tagbilaran as the President was scheduled to visit Bohol the next day, Friday Oct. 12, he explained.

“As to the three congressmen, I cannot speak for them. But they were also with me in the same flight,” the governor added.

“If indeed there was money distributed that day, all those who have received must return the money if it was a bribe and not intended for projects,” he emphasized.

The dole-outs were allegedly made to buy support for Pres. Arroyo now facing another impeachment charge in Congress.

With a faint smile, he said, “Mao bitaw nga ato jod giklaro nga neutral ta ning barangay ug SK elections kay wa jod tay kwarta ikatabang nila.” He was indirectly addressing some members of the media attending the regular Friday radio program knowing some of them are running as either barangay captain or kagawads.



Conscience-laden
As of yesterday, three out of 48 governors who attended the ULAP meeting with Pres. Arroyo have admitted receiving money from Malacañang stashed in a gift bag given after the lunch meeting.

Bulacan’s governor Joselito Mendoza said a Malacañang female aide wearing barong handed him two bags and he was asked to hand over the other bag to Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio.

The Pampanga governor announced that the bag contained P500,000. He has made a public declaration that if the source of the money is not revealed, he would return the money. But to whom, he did not say.

The P1,000 crisp peso bills were in five bundles at P100,000 each with marking Bank of Commerce.

Aside from Panlilio and De Guzman, Oriental Negros Gov. Emilio Macias III also admitted he received P200,000 but it was purportedly for the launching of his Integrated Tax Collection System.

While everybody is denying, Siquijor Gov. Orlando Fua, Jr. is fuming mad, complaining why he was not given the dole-out

But Gov. Panlilio noticed that if it was public funds and intended to fund projects, the release was puzzling. It was handed casually, without any voucher or signature of recipient as required by government auditing rules.

Among the congressmen, only three have yet admitted receiving money during the separate meeting with the President in Malacañang. They are Mauricio Domogan of Baguio, Rachel Arenas of Pangasinan and Antonio Cuenco of south district, Cebu.

The three Bohol solons said “they did not receive any.”

Mayors also met Pres. Arroyo during the ULAP turnover but none of them have admitted they received money from the President.

On Thursday night, however, a television network aired a video clip taken from a cellphone camera showing those attending the ULAP meeting “coming out with gift bags in hand,” similar to those given to governors Panlilio and De Guzman.

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has branded the latest Malacañang fiasco as indication of our leaders’ “moral bankruptcy.”
 

 


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