CALOOCAN City Rep. Edgar “Egay” Erice denies any involvement of Liberal Party members from the smear campaign alleged by the camp of Vice President Jejomar Binay saying it’s just a tactic to hide the real issue linking his daughter to the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam.
He said in his privilege speech: “Wala kaming alam sa ‘white paper’ na ‘yan, nalaman lang namin nang ito ay lumabas sa pahayagan at sinasagot ng pamilya Binay at ng United Nationalist Alliance, kaakibat ang malisyosong pag-aakusa sa LP. Kasinungalingan po yan, walang basehan.”
Cong. Erice was referring to the “white paper” detailing the alleged anomalies in the PDAF allocations of Rep. Abigail Binay that recently came out from various newspapers.
These included the COA findings which said that Rep. Binay indeed “significantly exceeded” her PDAF allocation for 2008 by P47 million when she received P117 million, and the P12.6-million which she allegedly diverted in the years 2008 and 2009 to a non-government organization Kasanib, co-founded by her father.
Rep. Binay likewise allegedly gave P15 million to Gabay at Pag-asang Masa Foundation in 2009, which was among the fake NGOs recently reported by COA and removed from accreditation by the Department of Agriculture because of unliquidated funds.
The Gabay at Pag-asang Masa Foundation was allegedly among the bogus NGOs of one Godofredo Roque, whose operation is similar to the NGOs of Janet Lim-Napoles.
He also challenged Rep. Binay to explain the P16-million vermiculture project in Makati, which he said, was very unlikely for a highly-urbanized city.
The Caloocan solon explained that Rep. Binay should explain these transactions instead of immediately accusing Malacañang, the Liberal Party and its officials of allegedly instigating a smear drive against her and her family.
He likewise said that while Vice President Binay declared that President Aquino was not involved in any of these, the suggestion, however, is contradicting because this seems to imply that the President is separate from and not a part of LP.
FREE COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAM REVIEWS
A series of free college entrance exam reviews has been offered by the Navotas City government to ensure that local students who have graduated from high school can pursue their studies in top colleges and universities especially in Metro Manila.
The project was initiated by the Navotas City Council for Youth and development which was actually on its second year after the administration of Mayor John Rey Tiangco launched it last year.
Mayor Tiangco says the program was offered to enable graduating high school students, who are city residents, to pursue their tertiary studies in prime colleges and universities like the University of the Philippines, De La Salle University, University of Santo Tomas and Ateneo de Manila University, among others.
He reiterates that the free services were anchored on the its belief about the importance of giving support to the young and poor students who want to have chance to study in top colleges in Metro Manila.
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