Marcos Wealth: Stolen money stolen again?

[slakker]

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gma stealing from marcos, there's no honor among thieves.

[bfg9000]

if ever i want to have a union so be it but i don't want to join the perrenial rallyists or worst the NPA. i have yet to fathom and accept the principles of THOSE people.

kay kung magpadala gyud ta sa atong tama, sa kahimtang sa atong nasud ug sa kabulok sa atong gobyerno, angay man gyud ta mo apil ug NPA tanan ba kung maayo gyud ni ilang programa pero nganong wa man or di man gyud ni mahitabo? ang tubag ani, mao pu'y tubag nako.

Well I agree with you, it boils down to personal choice. Though I don't agree that your only options are to either "don't fret" or "join the perennial rallysists/NPA/rebel soldiers/etc.". There are other choices, like "find, support, vote for the ideal candidate". That I believe is something we all can do.

[LytSlpr]

if ever i want to have a union so be it but i don't want to join the perrenial rallyists or worst the NPA. i have yet to fathom and accept the principles of THOSE people.

kay kung magpadala gyud ta sa atong tama, sa kahimtang sa atong nasud ug sa kabulok sa atong gobyerno, angay man gyud ta mo apil ug NPA tanan ba kung maayo gyud ni ilang programa pero nganong wa man or di man gyud ni mahitabo? ang tubag ani, mao pu'y tubag nako.

Well I agree with you, it boils down to personal choice. Though I don't agree that your only options are to either "don't fret" or "join the perennial rallysists/NPA/rebel soldiers/etc.". There are other choices, like "find, support, vote for the ideal candidate". That I believe is something we all can do.

we did that already bai, pero frustrating lagi kaayo. mao na maayo pa di na lang kaayo dibdibon. mo support ta kung na'ay opportunity pero di na gyud mag frontliner. kung walay mo initiate aw, lutaw-lutaw lang ta sa balod kay kung atong sugaton unya wala ta'y dakong sakayan, malumos man sad ta. mag huwat lang ta kung na'ay mo barog na kapitan.

[FK]

we did that already bai, pero frustrating lagi kaayo. mao na maayo pa di na lang kaayo dibdibon. mo support ta kung na'ay opportunity pero di na gyud mag frontliner. kung walay mo initiate aw, lutaw-lutaw lang ta sa balod kay kung atong sugaton unya wala ta'y dakong sakayan, malumos man sad ta. mag huwat lang ta kung na'ay mo barog na kapitan.

pero bisan pa bai nga wala pa mo barog na kapitan... dapat magpabilin gihapon imong baroganan... many of this corrupt individuals started when they get frustrated. Kong imo ni silang pangotan-on onsa kasagaran rason? Gabuhat man gani sila... ngano ako dili man. Kay kong mawad-an gud ta og pag-asa bai diha na man ta mo KAPIT SA PATALIM... og diha magsugod ang kabati sa atong batasan.

[LytSlpr]

we did that already bai, pero frustrating lagi kaayo. mao na maayo pa di na lang kaayo dibdibon. mo support ta kung na'ay opportunity pero di na gyud mag frontliner. kung walay mo initiate aw, lutaw-lutaw lang ta sa balod kay kung atong sugaton unya wala ta'y dakong sakayan, malumos man sad ta. mag huwat lang ta kung na'ay mo barog na kapitan.

pero bisan pa bai nga wala pa mo barog na kapitan... dapat magpabilin gihapon imong baroganan... many of this corrupt individuals started when they get frustrated. Kong imo ni silang pangotan-on onsa kasagaran rason? Gabuhat man gani sila... ngano ako dili man. Kay kong mawad-an gud ta og pag-asa bai diha na man ta mo KAPIT SA PATALIM... og diha magsugod ang kabati sa atong batasan.

kasabot ko, pero para nako ni work lang ang "lutaw-lutaw sa alon" floating status ba. so ana lang usa ko ron but not necessarily mo bali na ko.

kay kung sige nato pangita-on ang puti nga mao gyu'y mo lingkod sa atong gobyerno, basin mabuta nag lang ta ug pinangita mas maayo na lang "grey" atong panan-aw sige human unya na lang ta mo tan-aw sa puto kung mao na gyu'y nilingkod.

[FK]

kay kung sige nato pangita-on ang puti nga mao gyu'y mo lingkod sa atong gobyerno, basin mabuta nag lang ta ug pinangita mas maayo na lang "grey" atong panan-aw sige human unya na lang ta mo tan-aw sa puto kung mao na gyu'y nilingkod.

kahibaw man sab mi bai nga in a imperfect world... dili jud ta ka kita og puti kaau nga maoy maka lingkod... pero kong d ta magbantay basin mahimong uling ang puto... og kong dili nato labhan basin mahimong itom ang grey nato nga sanina tungod sa atong pagpa baliwala ani.

mo tagad ra ba ta sa atong giluto nga kan-on kong nanimaho na og dukot?

[FK]

CEBU CITY -- The foundation that was to implement the Department of Agriculture's controversial hybrid rice program in Cebu's third district has the same address and phone number as the office and clinic of the district's representative, Antonio Yapha.

The people behind the foundation are employees of Yapha, a physician and one of the three Cebuano lawmakers who benefited from the DA's Hybrid Rice Commercialization (HRC) program. Yapha received P3 million, according to DA records.

The foundation was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 30, 2002, under the name "Kasosyo Foundation." Its given address was Cebu City, with phone number 412-5773; its registration number was A200208333.

Per SEC records, its president, Wilfredo Camomot, was Yapha's speechwriter, who died of cardiac arrest on Aug. 23, 2004.

The money trail leads to Kasosyo...

[FK]

30% kickback for solons
Fertilizer fund scam detailed in Senate

A BROKER for a virtually unknown medical supplier yesterday exposed an alleged conspiracy between Department of Agriculture officials and local politicians to skim off the DA fund for liquid fertilizer.

Testifying at the Senate inquiry into the P728-million fertilizer fund scam, Jose Barredo Jr. said he met with congressmen, governors and mayors in their homes to persuade them to avail themselves of the DA fund by dangling an offer -- a 30-percent commission.

og asa na ron si Bolante? pareho sa una ni Garci ga tago2x... but sorry for him wala'y technicality nga makatabang niya.

http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.ph...story_id=64959

[FK]

COA report: Ornamental plant growers got fertilizer fund

SOME LIQUID fertilizers bought from the P3-million fund allocated by the Department of Agriculture for the lone district of Cagayan de Oro City Representative Constantino Jaraula ended up in the hands of farmers tending ornamental plants.
This was one of the many oddities that Commission on Audit teams found after traveling to some parts of Region 10 (Northern Mindanao) from Jan. 8 to 14 to validate if farmers received the farm inputs procured from the DA's P728-million fertilizer fund.

The DA released P73 million to the region in 2004 for the purchase of fertilizers under the Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) program based on the proposal of 21 government officials.

The COA teams, however, validated only P24 million allocated to six proponents, including Jaraula. Of the amount, P19 million was used to buy 20,250 bottles of foliar liquid fertilizers, and P5 million for 10,000 bags of SAKA organic fertilizer.

In its audit report, the COA noted that 59 farmers tending commercial
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ornamental plants in Barangays Iponan and Linangohan-Tablon in Cagayan de Oro City availed of a total of 300 bottles of foliar liquid fertilizer.

"Interview with the sample beneficiaries in Misamis Oriental disclosed that in Barangay Iponan and Tablon, the recipients had no farm for rice and corn, but only a small lot where ornamental plants were planted for sale," it said.

maau onta mo action na ang ombudsman...

[grabehbebe]

Palace seeks to be cleared of Marcos money misuse raps

Malacañang yesterday again sought to clear itself of allegations that it had used the more than P20 billion of the Marcos money in Swiss deposits that had been recovered by the state to boost President Arroyo’s campaign war chest in her bid to win the 2004 presidential elections.

In a statement, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the Palace had furnished the Senate, which the other day said it found “incriminating evidence” of the charges that the Arroyo administration had misused the Marcos funds, documents to prove that there was no truth to such allegations.

“The government has submitted the proper records, documents and figures to provide its point in the use of the funds, and no amount of malice will overturn the fact these were legitimate disbursements,” he said.
Bunye further maintained that the accusations of the administration’s having dipped its fingers into the recovered money of the Marcoses were “misplaced.”

“Official records would bear us out that there was no fund misappropriation as it was used for its intended beneficiaries — the farmers,” he said.

Bunye said the “true deception” was not in the release of the funds but in the investigations being conducted by the Senate which is allegedly seeking to put the administration in a bad light, to further foment destabilization of the Arroyo government.

He said such kind of investigations being launched by the Senate into issues that involve Mrs. Arroyo and her administration were nothing but a big waste of time and taxpayers’ money.

“Millions of pesos are being spent unwisely in legislative investigations that prove to be clothed with partisan and personal interest,” he alleged.

The other day, a Tribune report said senators had found incriminating proof that Mrs. Arroyo had indeed dipped her fingers into the almost P23 billion recovered allegedly illegally acquired money of the Marcoses during the 2004 presidential elections, as they found that the funds’ release that year was made without the approval of the body authorized to oversee its proper disbursement.

The senators said Mrs. Arroyo practically opened herself up to the possibility of being held liable for the disbursements of the Marcos funds.

Senators, in their continued questioning of officials of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on the alleged misuse of the so-called Marcos ill-gotten wealth during the agency’s resumption of budget hearings by the Committee of the Whole on Monday, hammered on the DAR officials that were present on the purported disbursements they made from the Marcos funds without obtaining the mandated approval of the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC) executive committee (execom).

The PARC is headed by Mrs. Arroyo and is composed of a number of Cabinet members and representatives of land owners and farmers.
The PARC execom, meanwhile, is headed by the DAR secretary and is composed of DAR undersecretaries.

Senate President Franklin Drilon, who pursued the so-called paper trail in the disposition of the Marcos money that was part of the P35 billion Marcos wealth that was placed in escrow in a government-owned bank until the case over it was resolved some two years ago, had noted in the previous DAR budget hearing the apparent questionable transaction along with the apparent possibility of Mrs. Arroyo being directly implicated in the alleged fund anomaly.

After the hearing on Thursday, Drilon told reporters that the Senate was inclined to believe only Mrs. Arroyo had approved the release of the Marcos funds.

“At the very least, there should have been confirmation by the PARC of the acts of the execom because the acts of the PARC are already a delegated authority of the Congress of the Philippines and the PARC further delegated it to the PARC execom. Therefore, at the very least, the PARC should ratify the acts of the PARC execom,” he had said.

Drilon, noting that the matter called for a more detailed examination, said they have already tasked the Commission on Audit to conduct a review of the government’s transactions made with the use of the Marcos funds, to form part of the Senate’s inquiry.

“The President is not the PARC. Therefore, this release in 2004 requires a more detailed examination,” he had said.

Sherwin C. Olaes
-http://www.tribune.net.ph/nation/20060322nat2.html