Senate readies arrest order vs Reyes, other broadband players
March 17, 2008
Another arrest order is in the offing in the Senate should businessman Ruben Reyes prove to be evasive in facing upper chamber probers looking into the botched ZTE-National Broadband Network (NBN) deal mess.Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. said this yesterday as he issued a new set of subpoenas to Reyes, one of the members of the alleged “greedy gang” or “greedy four,” as well as several others who still refuse to yield themselves before the three investigating com-mittees despite repeated invitations.
In a press conference, Villar said he had ordered the deployment of Senate’s personnel to deliver the subpoenas he had just signed that day, to include one intended for Reyes, considered a crucial witness in the ZTE investigation being handled by the blue ribbon, trade and commerce and national defense committees.
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Make a stand, Jun Lozada calls on AFP, PNP
March 2, 2008
BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS
ZTE star witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. yesterday called on upright members of the Armed Forces and Philippine National Police to make a stand on the issue of corruption hounding the Arroyo administration.
In an interview at La Salle Greenhills, Lozada said the opposition should abandon its call for President Arroyo to resign. “She has to be ousted.”
Lozada said given the arrogance of Arroyo and her officials, “people must really be prepared to bring this political crisis to a boil.” He added that people should stop deluding themselves that she will resign.
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From all sectors they come and cry out Gloria Resign
February 29, 2008
DEFYING last-ditch scare tactics, a broad movement of groups seeking President Arroyo’s resignation yesterday mobilized tens of thousand protesters at the interfaith rally at the Ninoy Aquino Monument in Makati City.
Organizers placed the crowd at 80,000 to 85,000. The police figure was 12,000.
Makati City Mayor and United Opposition president Jejomar Binay unleashed a minor political earthquake when he ended his opening remarks by calling on stage former Presidents Corazon Aquino, in her trademark yellow dress, and Joseph Estrada, in a red windbreaker.
Aquino and Estrada gave brief remarks before the crowd, in an apparent effort not to violate the agreed rally protocol that no politician would be allowed on stage, except for Binay who was tasked to deliver a welcome speech.
Aquino and Estrada sat beside each other on the makeshift stage.
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Callers say P10-M bounty tagged on Lozada’s head
February 26, 2008
Senate witness in the National Broadband Network (NBN) scandal Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr., yesterday claimed that a P10-million bounty has been placed on his head which he learned from anonymous callers who seek to silence him.
Lozada told a crowd gathered at the Redemptorist Church in Baclaran, Parañaque to celebrate the 22 nd anniversary of the Edsa People Power revolt that threats on his life continue to hound him as a result of his revelations in the Senate linking associates of President Arroyo and Mrs. Arroyo’s husband to the kickback-rich $329-million NBN contract awarded to Chinese supplier ZTE Corp.
“Those callers tell me, ‘Lozada, there is a P10-million bounty on your head. Many are eager to be the one to kill you for the prize,’” Lozada said. Read more>>
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Lacson: Potential ZTE witness demanded fee
February 21, 2008
A man had offered to bare more anomalies in the government’s national broadband network (NBN) project with ZTE Corp. of China in exchange for P5 million to P10 million but later changed his mind and agreed to do it for free, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said Wednesday.
Lacson said the potential witness, whom he declined to identify, once called his office to offer his testimony for P5 million. He said the man had reportedly asked for P10 million from the other senators.
“But now the person will come out and say what he knew of the (ZTE) deal in exchange for nothing,” Lacson said during a forum at Ciudad Fernandina in Greenhills, San Juan City.
Initially, Lacson said he thought the witness was a “Trojan Horse” and directed his staff to reject his offer. The term “Trojan Horse,” derived from Virgil’s epic poem “Aeneid,” is a metaphor for an infiltrator in disguise.
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Edsa II a mistake, says CBCP head
February 19, 2008
The church issued yesterday what amounted to a public apology for its pivotal role in installing then Vice President Gloria Arroyo to the presidency in a 2001 military-backed revolt that ousted popularly elected President Joseph Estrada.
Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president and Iloilo Archbishop Angel Lagdameo expressed disappointment in Mrs. Arroyo, saying which has become known as Edsa II, which happened between Jan. 17 and 21 in 2001 installed a president who is now being adjudged in surveys as the country’s “most corrupt” leader.
Lagdameo described the church’s involvement in the 2001 event as “embarrassing.”
He called for a “brand-new people power” to address the current political crisis.
Church officials also did not send representatives to a consultative meeting last
Monday called by Mrs. Arroyo through Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Favila.
Favila in announcing the meeting to newsmen specifically said the list of the invited included Archbishop Lagdameo.
A Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) source said Lagdameo declined the invitation due to his “tight schedule”.
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Geneva Pinoys call for Gloria ouster
February 19, 2008
Filipinos in Geneva, Switzerland have called for the resignation of President Arroyo after she, her husband and other government officials were linked to the anomalous $329-million National Broadband Network deal with China’s ZTE Corp.
The Geneva Forum for Philippine Concerns (GFPC) called the President a “hypocrite” when she vowed to put an end to “the legacy of corruption” in the government while she herself, her government allies and husband were involved in the bribery scandal.
“She put herself into the proverbial problem of finger-pointing: Three of her other fingers were pointing at herself,” GFPC said in a statement. “She does not have to look back in history or look at other institutions
to tell the Filipino people about corruption. She just has to look into her presidency, her bedroom, and her family dining table to see what corruption personified is.”
The group said that Mrs. Arroyo is destroying the country’s democratic institutions and freedoms, having control of the Congress, the police and the military.
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