- Office of Minority Leader Edcel C. Lagman
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- Official Website: http://www.edcellagman.com.ph
- 05 May 2011
It is Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda who is shooting his mouth off. Consider the following:
- After more than 10 months in office, the Aquino administration has not initiated nor started any prosecution before the Department of Justice and the courts of any errant public official for graft and corruption.
- The Aquino administration’s campaign on “good governance and less corruption” is limited to drumbeating and sloganeering.
- Even the Truth Commission which was created with much braggadocio was scuttled by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional and the decision had not been reconsidered.
- The Aquino administration has nothing concrete to show that it has improved on the record of governance and anti-corruption efforts of the previous Arroyo administration.
- Secretary Lacierda has failed and continues to fail to controvert the finding of the Hongkong-based Political and Economic Consultancy, Ltd. (PERC) that the Philippines’ corruption rating worsened to 8.9 from 8.25 in a scale of one to 10 in a survey covering the period from November 2010 to February 2011 in the incumbency of President Aquino.
- I serve no one except the sovereign people who elected me for six terms now, unlike Secretary Lacierda who serves at the pleasure of President Aquino and did not even have to pass the scrutiny of the people’s representatives in the Commission on Appointments.
- As Presidential spokesman, he has to speak well of the President even in the face of incontrovertible adverse facts, otherwise he may be jobless the following day.