FACING three impeachment complaints, President Benigno Aquino III has sent his Cabinet officials as emissaries to Congress, offering pork barrel to congressmen in clandestine meetings despite the Supreme Court ruling that the Priority Development Assistance Fund was unconstitutional. The subject of those meetings now form part of the fourth impeachment complaint against the President that ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio said he would file Monday. The complaint alleges a culpable violation of the Constitution and betrayal of public trust,with Tinio saying that the emissaries dangled pork to buy votes against Aquino’s impeachment. Tinio said two Cabinet officials – Commission on Higher Education chairman Patricia Licuanan and Health Undersecretary Janette Garin—had held separate dialogues with the lawmakers. Licuanan held a closed-door dialogue with congressmen last Tuesday while Garin held one a week earlier, Tinio said.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:39:33 +0000
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