While she never mentioned it in her State of the Nation Address (SONA) Monday, President Arroyo may want to update the nation on what she did with the P1-billion grant from the United States to fight corruption.
Read more: What happened to anti-graft grant?
Although he will gain nothing from it, Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson took up the cudgels for his colleagues in the minority whose pork barrel funds Malacanang had kept “hostage” for the last two to three years.
Read more: Don’t Veto ‘Anti-Hostage’ Pork Provision, Lacson Asks Palace
This early, Mrs. Arroyo’s call to Congress to craft an anti-corruption framework is already as good as sunk, no thanks to her tolerance and continued cover-up of corruption-laden practices in government.
Read More: Lacson: Arroyo Anti-Corruption Framework ‘Good as Sunk’
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