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 Supreme Court ruled that this contract was disadvantageous to the government and tasked the Ombudsman to find who is liable. So far, the Ombudsman found nobody. In effect it is saying that a crime has been committed against the Filipino people, but there is no perpetrator!
- The 2007 Election was supposed to be automated but the Comelec again didn't do its job maybe on purpose, or maybe the people working in it (with the leadership of Abalos) are just plain incompetent.
One respected political leader insists that the money trail in the botched P1.3-billion poll modernization project of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) goes all the way up to Malacañang. That’s why there was an urgent need to clear the COMELEC officials involved, in particular chair Benjamin Abalos, before anyone could spill the beans on one of the major beneficiaries of the deal.
Overpriced by P500 million—according to Solicitor General Alfredo Benipayo, who was an ex- COMELEC chair—it was a project that was doomed from the start. The poll body ignored its own bidding rules and changed these to suit one favored bidder, MegaPacific Corp. The Supreme Court (SC) deemed the process flawed and declared the contract null and void.
While it ordered the Office of the Solicitor General to recover the money paid to MegaPacific, the SC directed the Office of the Ombudsman to determine the criminal liability of the COMELEC officials involved in the rigged bidding. A committee created by Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez initially indicted Commissioner Resurreccion Borra but cleared him a few months later, after he threatened to drag his colleagues with him.
In a decision that shocked many, Gutierrez declared Abalos and company not liable for the voided contract, finding “no malice” involved in awarding the contract to MegaPacific. The decision bolstered suspicions that Gutierrez, Mr. Arroyo’s classmate at the Ateneo law school, was appointed at the anti-graft body to protect the Arroyos’ interests. Abalos is known to be Mr. Arroyo’s golf buddy in Wack-Wack in Mandaluyong and the First Gentleman was said to have principally backed his appointment to the COMELEC.
Source of this information is Newsbreak.
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