The following items are matters of national interest that have not seen closure yet. As concerned citizens, we need to be aware of what the government and our leaders need to do for us. We are doing our part as citizens, they should do theirs also.
All these questions need to be answered for our benefit. We can't move on unless they are!
I will try to maintain this site to carry all alleged corruptions against Philippine president Gloria Arroyo.
Each corruption case will be updated in a timely manner. If you want to join this group send me an email at jonmariano at gmail dot com.
The Jocjoc Bolante Corruption Case
Who is Jocjoc Bolante?
He was an undersecreatary in the Department of Agriculture during and before the 2004 presidential elections. A rotarian and a congressman wanabe.
What is the Jocjoc Bolante Case?
He was instrumental in using the people's money (supposed to be for use in buying fertilizers to be given to farmers). It was alledged that the funds were diverted to Gloria Arroyo's campaign kitty. During the senate hearing it was more or less established that some things were fishy.
Before he could be made to answer, he fled the country. Now he's in an American jail pending deportation. He's applied for a visa to stay in the US. So far he's been denied.
What is the government doing with the case?
The senate has investigated the case and the findings were forwarded to the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman (The First Gentleman's classmate, has been sitting on the case for a long time.
Additional Information from Newsbreak
An ongoing saga first exposed during the 2004 campaign period and which resurfaced at the height of the impeachment attempt against the President, the fertilizer scam has crossed the Pacific with the arrest of its supposed main architect, former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-Joc” Bolante.
Arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport in July last year for a canceled visa, Bolante is now fighting deportation proceedings in a US court, even as he seeks political asylum there, claiming that the opponents of the President wanted him dead. His court troubles began when he snubbed repeated Senate subpoenas for him to shed light on the P728-million fertilizer fund allegedly distributed to Arroyo’s allies during the 2004 election.
A member of the Makati Rotary Club like the First Gentleman, Bolante was Arroyo’s first appointee to the agriculture department, which she headed for a time after she assumed the Presidency in 2001.
It was Bolante who distributed the fertilizer fund to local allies of the President, supposedly to subsidize farmers. But a Senate investigation showed that the funds were misused for political purposes. The Senate has recommended the filing of plunder charges against Bolante, as well as former Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo.
Farmers have claimed that not one centavo trickled down to them. “The farm inputs and implements program is a premeditated, systematic and grand agricultural theft. In the words of farmers and taxpayers, the fertilizer scam is the rape of the nation,” the Senate finding said.
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