Frontpage pa itong balita sa Abante-Tonite.
UPDATE: Dean Jorge Bocobo says Magsaysay's got the right stuff to become president. MLQ3 agrees, and thinks he would make a great president.
At sa plano raw ng mga kongresista na imbestigahan rin ang mga Senators kung paano nila ginamit ang "pork barrel" nila, sabi ni Ellen Tordesillas na maganda raw yan para magka-bukingan ang dalawang panig kung sino sa kanila ang mas malaking magnakaw.
Ernie Maceda adds his 2 cents on the fertilizer scam:
Many more. Six more congressmen have been charged by the Commission on Audit for grossly overpriced fertilizer out of their “pork barrel” allocations. This brings to 10 so far the number of congressmen involved in the fertilizer scam. There will be more.
At the Senate, former Budget and Management Secretary Emilia Boncodin and former Solicitor General Frank Chavez revealed that not only P728 million was released for fertilizers and farming inputs before the May 2004 elections but three more releases for a total P3.9 billion were made.
One significant fact was brought out by Sen. Jamby Madrigal. Bukidnon Rep. Mike Zubiri realigned his P5-million allocation for a concreting project which proves that the fertilizer funds were released to the control of the congressmen proponents.
Former Batanes Rep. Butch Abad complained that his name was included as a proponent even if he did not request an allocation. And neither did he receive the funds allocated to him. The list of ghost recipients headed by Makati City Rep. Teddy Boy Locsin is getting longer. Who got the money?
Now one can understand why former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn Bolante is in hiding. Definitely, he has a lot of explaining to do.
There have been fertilizer scams before under other Presidents but certainly not of this magnitude and not election-related. Another instance of corruption being worse under GMA.
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