"Last week, Senator Estrada also made a statement implying that Malacañang may have had a hand in this investigation that is implicating him together with other members of the minority bloc in the Senate. During the last Blue Ribbon Committe hearing, no less than CoA Director for Special Audit Susan Garcia said that the special audit of the use of the PDAF started in May 2010 during the time of then CoA Chairman Reynaldo Villar. Villar was an appointee of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and clearly, President Noynoy Aquino wasn’t in power yet when the CoA special audit began. It is also worthy to note that current CoA Chairperson Grace Pulido-Tan was appointed to her present position in April 2011 thus, the special audit was already one year old when President Aquino’s appointee to CoA assumed office. This testimony and statement of facts clearly refutes any allegations that the present administration used or influenced CoA to pin down Senator Estrada and other members of the Senate minority bloc. Instead of looking for people to blame for their names being implicated in this pork barrel scam, perhaps the best thing that Senator Estrada and his allies can do is to give a better explanation to the public about how and why more than a billion pesos of their PDAF ended up with these bogus NGOs and worse, bogus projects. Of course this is easier said than done especially if the truth isn’t really at your side."
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 05:57:13 +0000
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