VILLAR SHOULD FACE THE SENATE ON THE C5 REPORT
“Sen. Manny Villar should be more concerned about the damage to the credibility of the Senate as an institution, rather than the strain to his relationship with his Senate colleagues, if the Senate C5 Report does not get to the floor for deliberation,” this was the response of Florencio “Butch” Abad, general campaign manager of the Aquino-Roxas campaign, to the hurt expressed by Villar to Sen. Kiko Pangilinan and Sen. Jinggoy Estrada for signing the report.
Abad added: “The position of the Liberal Party, to which Pangilinan adheres, is based on its commitment to responsible use of power, truth, transparency and accountability. The LP senators signed the report not to declare anyone guilty or play politics but mainly to ensure that the report reaches the floor of the Senate so that it can be publicly and freely debated on the floor. That should be a reasonable demand.”
“It seems that Villar and his camp are doing everything to stop the Senate from deliberating on the report. First, they attempted to undermine the then on-going Committee of the Whole hearings on the report with the premature submission of a resolution absolving Villar. Failing to do, they secretly conspired to unseat Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, author of the C5 report, but failed. Villar denied this but Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, a Villar ally, confirmed it. Then, now, they are repeatedly absenting themselves to prevent a quorum from talking up the report. Again, Sen. Santiago confirmed this when she admitted receiving a call from the NP not to attend the sessions,” Abad further added.
Abad stressed that “the Senate only has six session days left to dispose of the report. If Villar and his Senate allies continue to absent themselves from the sessions, they only have themselves to blame if the C5 report is not acted upon. The ultimate loser will be our people who deserve the truth on the serious findings and recommendations contained in the report.”
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Office of the General Campaign Manager Aquino-Roxas 2010 Laban na Tapat, Laban ng Lahat!
Villar and Arroyo embezzled enough money to be included in Transparency International’s “Most Corrupt Leaders History” . Marcos and Estrada are already in this list.
Manny Villar C5, PSE, etc > P10 billion / 44.35 = $ 225 million good for 9th
Gloria Arroyo ZTE-NBN deal, . >P11 billion/44.35 = $ 262 million good for 8th
Northrail etc
Most Corrupt Leaders inHistory: http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr/gcr_2004#download
1. Mohamed Suharto President of Indonesia (1967–1998) $ 15 to 35 billion
2. Ferdinand Marcos President of the Philippines (1972–1986) $ 5 to 10 billion
3. Mobutu Sese Seko President of Zaire (1965–1997) $ 5 billion
4. Sani Abacha President of Nigeria (1993–1998) $ 2 to 5 billion
5. Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia (1989–2000) $ 1 billion
6. Jean-Claude Duvalier President of Haiti (1971–1986) $ 300 to 800 million
7. Alberto Fujimori President of Peru (1990–2000) $ 600 million
8. Pavlo Lazarenko Prime Minister of Ukraine (1996–1997) $ 114 to 200 million
9. Arnoldo Alem�n President of Nicaragua (1997–2002) $ 100 million
10. Joseph Estrada President of the Philippines (1998–2001) $ 78 to 80 million
Manny Villar C5, PSE, etc > P10 billion / 44.35 = $ 225 million good for 9th
Gloria Arroyo ZTE-NBN deal, . >P11 billion/44.35 = $ 262 million good for 8th
Northrail etc
Sources:
GDP figures: UN Human Development Report 2003 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003); IMF Country Report
No. 02/269 (2002).
Suharto: Time Asia, 24 May 1999; Inter Press, 24 June 2003.
Marcos: CNN, February 1998; Time Asia, 24 May 1999; UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Anti-Corruption
Toolkit, version 5, available at http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/corruption_toolkit.html
Mobutu: UN General Assembly, ‘Global Study on the Transfer of Funds of Illicit Origin, Especially Funds Derived
from Acts of Corruption’, November 2002; Time Asia, 24 May 1999.
Abacha: UNODC, Anti-Corruption Toolkit; BBC News (Britain), 4 September 2000; see also ‘Repatriation of looted
state assets’, Chapter 6, page 100.
Milosevic: Associated Press, 2 December 2000.
Duvalier: Robert Heinl, Nancy Heinl and Michael Heinl, Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492–1995
(Lanham: University Press of America, 1996); Time Asia, 24 May 1999; UNODC, Anti-Corruption Toolkit; L’Humanité
(France), 11 May 1999.
Fujimori: Office of the Special State Attorney for the Montesinos/Fujimori case, Peru.
Lazarenko: Financial Times (Britain), 14 May 2003; Chicago Tribune (United States), 9 June 2003.
Alemán: BBC News (Britain), 10 September 2002.
Estrada: CNN, 22 April 2001; Inter Press, 24 June 2003
Hi Guys,
Allow me to write this again.
I keep wondering why nobody is making good use of the cover story of the March 2010 issue of the Reader’s Digest Asian Edition. The title is, Philippines Who Do You Trust? The survey is done by an independent group. The result? For those running in May 10:
#5. Noynoy Aquino
#17 Vilma Santos
#24. Mar Roxas
#41 Alfredo Lim
#47 Rodrigo Duterte
#48 Dick Gordon
#50 Chiz Escudero (bowed out)
#52 Joker Arroyo
#60 Manny Villar
#65 Gibo Teodoro
#73 Bongbong Marcos
#74 Imee Marcos
#77 Imelda Marcos
#78 Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
#79 Erap Estrada
#80 Hayden Kho (just to to rub in the idea of the company they keep)
Please grab a copy. Use this potent tool. Never mind the dismal position of some personalities (e.g. # 42!)
Good luck God bless
kapal ng mukha ni villar i-compare nya sarili nya kay ninoy! Hero yun, d magnanakaw! d b sya nangingilabot sa sarili nya, he’s scary
does this blogsite promote hate campaign? parang laging may blogpost na against sa kabilang kandidato at sa administration. i’ve been observing all presidential candidate’s sites even facebook fanpage. and it seems noynoy’s page has the most number of hate campaign.
I can not understand why such a respectable senator, Senator Pimentel is not in favor of Sen. Villar attending the Senate session to clear his name. I admired Sen. Pimentel when he decried the vote of his fellow senators not to open the envelope during the impeachment trial of Mr. Estrada. He said back then that although he is a “kumpadre” of Erap, he wanted to know the contents of the envelope because the public has the right to know the truth and only by opening the envelope would they be able to judge the case more objectively. How different is the case of Manny Villar from Mr. Estrada’s impeachment case. Why don’t they just ask Mr. Villar to face the charges squarely? The Filipino people deserve to know the truth.
During the impeachment proceedings, Erap’s lawyer successfully prevented the opening of the envelope containing a check with a “Velarde” signature. The country then realized what kind of a leader Erap was. Fast forward today, Villar’s accomplices did their best to foil the disclosure of the C5 investigation report to the Senate floor and to the whole nation as well. The filipino people got a glimpse of the leadership capability Villar is made of. Same banana. Any takers? Wowowee! .. wawa naman we..
My god! Sen. Pimentel what insertion are talking about for Mar Roxas. That’s a bizarre and shocking sensation for all of us to contemplate.
Politics or evidence of complicity on the C5 road project. This is the challenge that Villar and the rest of his campaign team must faced and answer, rather than make a hasty retreat to a common withdrawal point that, this are all nothing but a sham, a part of mudslinging campaign in politics. Voters from Metro Manila not from the Visayas and Mindanao are in the best position to decide these matters if otherwise given the chance to judge this issues without being paid or given favors to affect their impartial judgement on whether Villar is guilty or not in this upcoming elections. Rather than making accusations and point a finger to Noynoy and Mar and other presidentiables in the conspiracy to demolished and maligned Villar’s name and reputation as a presidential candidate. As a matter of fact, this is the moment that my fellow blogger Susan has long been waiting for Manny to solemnly swear right in front of her and to the public that “Hindi ako magnanakaw dahil walang makapagsasabi sa inyo na ako ay inyong nakita na tumanggap ng pera.” Huh! say it again, sure ka ba?
In management we are guided by the principle that any leadership position is a “position of trust.” A leader must represent his office with the highest level of integrity, transparency and accountability. The “buck stops here” principle is sorely missed by us who expect excellent governance from our political leaders.
ksalanan ba ni noynoy kung nging magulang nya c cory at ninoy?face ur music senator villar!di ka pa pangulo arrogant ka na….kauri mo rin c gloria!
Good point Mylene! =) Senator Noynoy certainly does not see it as a fault to have been born to noble parents. He considers it a privilege and a duty to honor their memory by continuing their fight for a just, democratic and honest government. Let us join him in this fight.
tama ka Chito, and I think Sen. Villar has to answer directly the accusations thrown to him and not to use always “pulitika lang Yan”. Nang makita ko yung plano ng C5 na binago ni Villar, I started to believe na totoo na may nangyaring anomalya. Hindi ko kailangan maging educated to understand it. At yung mga respetadong senador katulad nina Pimentel, Cayetano(s), at Miriam, sila ang mga trapo na handang isakripisyo ang principio dahil sa politika. Kung totoong walang kasalanan si Villar sagutin niya sa mga senador ang mga bagay na ito at huwag matakot. Siguro kung mapapatunayan niya na tama siya baka magka-simpatia pa sa kanya ang bayan. I am afraid na kung totoo ito at siya ay mananalo, talagang di tayo makakaahon sa kahirapan. Patunayan Se. Villar ang pagiging inosente mo dito sa bagay na ito, kasi kung ngayon senator ka pa lang ay nangungurakot ka na at ginagamit mo ang position mo(ayon sa accusation) paano pa kung ikaw ang magiging pangulo ng Bansa. Parang di napalitan niyan a ng sistema natin.
di po ako nag-aakusa, nagtatanong lang at humihingi ng kasagutan. Maawa naman sila sa Pilipinas na sabi nila mahal nila