A statement from YOU
The group also said the Arroyo administration, to assure its stay in power, has squandered public money particularly during the last presidential elections.
“The 'Hello Garci' tape scandal is nothing compared to the huge sums of money from jueteng, drugs, smuggling and kickbacks that changed hands between the first week of May 2004 presidential elections and the last weeks of June after the elections at the house of Mrs. Arroyo in La Vista, Quezon City, where bags of money (were distributed) to superintendents of schools from Northern Luzon and Central Luzon,” it added.
The group said “what is more unconscionable is that they did not spare the Marcos money that had been declared by the Supreme Court as public funds and are intended to ameliorate our hapless farmers in the countryside under the Land Reform Program. Over P3 billion was stolen and went to the pockets of unscrupulous politicians.”
“They cannot deny this because we have witnesses and highly incriminating pieces of evidence that will send them to jail for the rest of their lives. This is not the right time to read a bill of particular. That will come later,” it added.
The group described the Arroyo administration as being characterized by
“callous shamelessness.”