NOYNOYS FAKE MOVEMENT Aquino’s operators launched on the - TopicsExpress



          

NOYNOYS FAKE MOVEMENT Aquino’s operators launched on the same day an anti-Aquino rally in Luneta was scheduled, a “civil-society coalition” supporting “tuwid na daan” reforms, the “Koalisyon ng mga Mamamayan para sa Reporma” (Kompre). They claimed it was convened by one respectable civil-society personality, Karina Constantino-David, “former civil service commission chair, and one respectable businessman, Alberto Lim, “former tourism secretary.” It turns out that both are earning P2.3 million per month in cozy directorships that require them to attend meetings just once a month in government corporations, the Government Service Insurance System for David and Development Bank of the Philippines for Lim. I would understand if they had announced that they were simply earning their keep. But to pretend to be concerned citizens wanting to continue “Aquino’s reforms” is sheer hypocrisy. A few weeks ago, full-page ads costing P250,000 each came out in several papers claiming – in very bad English – that the Constitution should be amended to allow Aquino to run for a second term, for his “reforms” to be continued. The ads were signed by a “Movement for Reform, Continuity and Momentum (More2Come),” and were so sickeningly sycophantic over Aquino. The lead convener was one Melvin Matibag, identified as a “lawyer.” Google him and he’s reported as having been general manager of the Manila international airport in the closing months of former President Gloria Arroyo’s term, and as a losing vice-mayoralty candidate in the San Pedro, Laguna elections last year. My own sources claim he is related to a Department of Education undersecretary whose wealth, a vast one I was told, was in the lending business. What’s interesting, though, about Matibag is that most of the Google entries reported him as a professional poker player, even profiled and ranked in such poker sites as Global Poker Index, Poker Pages and Pokerportal Asia. Apparently, he’s been such a good poker player that he gained the moniker Melvin “The Miracle” Matibag. Maybe that sobriquet convinced President Aquino to recruit him to launch a fake movement that he be given a second term. I can’t stop wondering, though, if Matibag made such a huge fortune in international poker tournaments that he could afford More2Come’s expensive newspaper ads, or if rather, he lost a fortune in the game that he’s been forced to earn a living being a dummy for Aquino as convener of a fake movement. tiglao.manilatimes@gmail FB: Rigoberto Tiglao
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:49:56 +0000

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