Guv calls for sobriety amid ZTE-NBN issue Bohol Chronicle
February 24, 2008
Gov. Erico Aumentado has called on the Boholanos to exercise calmness and sobriety in the wake of the controversy stirred by former Philippine Forest Corp. executive Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr.
Lozada is the star witness in the ongoing Senate hearing on the scuttled $329-million National Broadband Network (NBN) deal with China's ZTE Corp.
Aumentado issued the call in his weekly program The Governor Reports aired live over three radio stations in Bohol and delayed broadcast over a fourth. Two of the stations are also heard around the globe through the Internet.
"Let us rally behind our Constitution and the flag, and be one in our support for the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo," he said.
"This is time for unity and prayer - not for noisy rallies - so that the many projects we have been proposing to the NEDA [National Economic and Development Authority] Board under President Arroyo will be realized," he said.
Under no other chief executive except President Arroyo has Bohol experienced progress by leaps and bounds, he added.
He also praised Bishop Leonardo Medroso of the Diocese of Tagbilaran for similarly issuing such calls to the faithful, and for giving his opinion and choice advice to his colleagues and the local clergy to also appeal for calmness - not stoke the fire of controversy now gripping the nation.
Aumentado emphasized that the Filipinos do not need another EDSA.
"What gains did we get from the administrations of former Presidents Corazon Aquino and Joseph Estrada - the beneficiaries of EDSA 1 and 2?" he asked.
The governor does not find any wisdom in changing horses in midstream. "But if we must change leaders before her term ends, it should be by impeachment, with the process starting at the House of Representatives, not by people power," he said after Rep. Jose de Venecia (Pangasinan, 4th District) joined the opposition following his ouster from the Speakership.
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