• Rep. Edcel C. Lagman
• Independent-Albay
• 15 February 2012
• 0916-6406737 / 0918-9120137

         The House Minority must be able to choose more relevant and seasonable issues in confronting the Aquino administration.

         The public auction sale of the government’s property in Baguio City was a transaction that happened as early as 1992.

         It is a relic which should be consigned to the archives rather than exhumed as a possible ground for impeachment of President Aquino since it is bereft of legal and factual anchorage.

         The execution of the deed of absolute sale by President Aquino on September 16, 2011 in favor of the winning bidder and purchaser, the SM Group, which fully paid the purchase price in 1997, was only confirmatory of the legal transaction and mandated by law.

         Responsibility and candor demand that non-issues should not be floated as serious concerns.