Moner swearing by the Koran. Photo from Philippine Star.Hindi natuwa si Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile at Sen, Jinggoy Estrada sa pasirko-sirko ni Judge Nagamura Moner ng Shariah Court tungkol sa kanyang papel sa dayaan noong 2004 eleksyun.
Noong 2005 kasi, na-interview ng Probe TV ni Cheche Lazaro si Moner at marami siyang kuwento tungkol sa ginawa niyang pandaraya sa 2004 na eleksyun sa utos ni Mike Arroyo, asawa ni Gloria Arroyo. May mga papeles pa siyang pinakita at ang isa nga doon ay sulat ng pagpapasalamat galing sa chief –of-staff ni Mike na si Juris Soliman.
Nang mag-imbistigasyun na sa Senado, aba, ay sinabi ni Moner na nagsinungaling daw siya sa Probe. Bola lang daw ang sinabi niya sa media. Wala naman daw talagang dayaan.
Dennis Garcia writes for Abante every Friday. Enjoy ako sa kanyang column tungkol kay Manny Pacquiao. Minsan nanggigigil ako sa pangulo natin. Pagka’t, tapos ng…
One brave soul has mustered the courage to bring the powerful Luna family to court.
Ex-Rep. Cecilia S. LunaBernadine S. Joson, concurrent secretary to the Sangguniang Bayan of Lagayan, AbraLagayan Mayor Jendricks Luna and until recently municipal planning and development coordinator, filed before the Ombudsman charges of plunder, graft and corruption, technical malversation, unethical conduct, and violation of the government procurement reform act against former mayor and congresswoman Cecilia Seares-Luna and her eldest son Jendricks, who is president of the Lagayan Association of Barangay Captains.
Also charged were Mayor Purificacion Blaza Paingan, aunt of Cecilia; Vice Mayor Lara Haya Seares Luna; Marissa G. Donato, relative of the Lunas who is the municipal treasurer; Meno C. Dickenson,municipal accountant and Osborne P. Dolaoen, municipal engineer.
In the complaint, filed with counsels Harry Roque and Romel Bagares of Center Law Philippines, Joson said: “The plunder committed by mother and son take together from the years 2003 to 2010 amounts to total of at least Php133,907,142.”
Sports heroes with a heartAll the more that I love the Azkals.
Not only have they brought honor to the country and revitalized football in the Philippines without depending so much on the government, we are about to experience their concern for others.
On the third week of this month, there will be a 3-team friendly soccer tournament at the Rizal Memorial Stadium featuring the Azkals, Kaya Futbol Club, and Global Futbol Club for the benefit of IcanServe Foundation, a non-stock, non-profit organization composed mostly of breast cancer survivors who are into information crusade about breast cancer and the benefits of early detection.
On Sept. 19 (Monday), it’s the Azkals vs KayaFC ; Sept. 21(Wednesday), Azkals vs GlobalFC , and on Sept. 24 (Saturday) KayaFC vs GlobalFC. The two-hour games will start at 3:00 pm.
By Luz Rimban,VERA Files Two prominent members of a powerful political family in Abra are facing plunder charges for allegedly embezzling more than P130 million…
Letter of Court AdministratorMidas Marquez to Malayare Wikileaks report on SC justices and Mariano Nocom.
Ex OMB Chair Edu ManzanoI’ve been trying to call Edu Manzano, former chairman of the Optical Media Board, who was the source of former US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Paul Jones in his report about Supreme Court justices giving protection to businessman Mariano Nocom, in whose malls many pirated goods are sold.
This was in his Sept. 2006 cable which was one of those recently released by Wikileaks website.
I didn’t get a response to my text messages to Edu. I was told he is out of the country. Maybe he does not want to be disturbed.
The reason why I was calling Edu was because a friend in the Supreme Court told me that true, Nocom has protectors in the High Court, but as far as he knows it is not former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban.
MMDA Chair Francis TolentinoMabuti naman at sinabi ni Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Francis Tolentino na magsasampa sila ng kaso laban kay Edward John Gonzales, ang 30-taong gulang na nambaril sa MMDA traffic enforcer na si Larry Fiala, na ngayon ay nasa-ospital pa rin.
Dapat talagang panagutin si Gonzales sa kayang ginawa. Dapat maparusahan ang mga taong kapag nakakotse ay akala mo hari sila.
Sana hindi matulad itong kaso sa nangyari sa security guard na si Ricardo Bonayog na takot ipagpatuloy ang pagsampa ng kaso sa abusadong kongresista ng Lanao del Sur na si Rep. Mohammed Hussein Pangandaman.
Kung sabagay, iba ang sitwasyun ni Bonayog dahil opisyal ng pamahalaan ang kanyang nakabangga at hindi sigurado kung susuportahan siya ng kanyang kumpanya.
COMELEC Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. hands over the COMELEC’s Integrity Pledge to Makati Business Club (MBC) Chairman Ramon del Rosario Jr. Also present in the photo are representatives of the MBC and the European Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (ECCP) and COMELEC Commissioners Lucenito Tagle, Christian Robert Lim and Augusto Lagman.Ang isang malaking kasalanan ni Gloria Arroyo sa sambayanang Pilipino ay ang pagsira ng mga institusyon pangdemokrasya para lamang manatili siya sa kapangyarihan.
Sinira niya ang military nang ginamit niya ito para mandaya para sa kanya noong 2004 na eleksyun. Sinira niya ang institusyon ng hustisya sa pamamagitan ng paglagay ng mga taong kulang sa integridad basta lang susunod sa gusto niya.
Sinira niya ang Comelec sa paggamit niya para mandaya sa kanya.
Ang mandato ng Comelec ay ang siguraduhin na magkaroon ng maayos, malinis, at kapani-paniwala na eleksyun na magpapalabas ng kagustuhan ng taumbayan. Ang eleksyun ay isang mahalagang elemento ng demokrasya. Ang eleksyun ang nagbibigay buhay sa sinabi ni Abraham Lincoln, dating president ng Estados Unidos, na ang demokrasya ay “pamahalaan ng taumbayan, na pinapamahalaan ng taumbayan, para sa taumbayan.”
The displaced director of the Commission on Elections’ Law Department has accused Chairman Sixto S. Brillantes Jr. of unethical behavior for allegedly requesting him to help absolve two Comelec officials ordered suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman for approving the P690 million contract to purchase ballot secrecy folders for the 2010 elections.
Lawyer Ferdinand Rafanan, who served as head of the Comelec Law Department for three years until he was relieved on Aug. 15, said Brillantes had asked him pointblank to talk to the Ombudsman’s spokesman on how to clear Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) members Maria Lea Alarkon and Allen Abaya of charges of “simple neglect of duty, simple misconduct and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service.”
The irony is, it was Rafanan who had investigated the transaction and concluded an overprice.
