Activist party-list group Anakpawis yesterday
slammed the grave abuse of power by the Department of Agrarian Reform
(DAR) to dictate the ongoing process to audit Hacienda Luisita Inc.
(HLI).
The group said the DAR is continuously pushing the two audit firms
that have previous link to the Cojuangco’s HLI to participate in its de
facto bidding procedure.
In a statement, Anakpawis party-list vice
chairman Fernando Hicap said the DAR is extending its “power trip” up to
the point that it is meddling on the ongoing process to choose an
independent audit firm to look into HLI records.
Such records
supposedly pertain to the P1.33 billion HLI owes to farm worker
beneficiaries for the selling of more than 500 hectares of land parcel
to Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) and North Luzon
Expressway (Nlex) management.
“Despite the resounding and majority decision of parties involved in
the auditing process namely the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa
loob ng Asyenda Luisita, 1989 Original Farmer Beneficiaries, Farmers for
Agrarian Reform Movement, Inc., Luisita Supervisory Union of Hacienda
Luisita Inc., the United Luisita Workers Union, and by Mr. Noel Mallari
to get the Ocampo, Mendoza, Leung, Lim and Co. service to look into
HLI’s records.
DAR quickly rejected the groups’ position and
maintained that the Reyes-Tacandong and Co and the KPMG with a local
counterpart Manabat Sanagustin and Co. — two firms that previously
audited HLI — can apply for the job” Hicap said.
Anakpawis said the
move by the DAR to bypass the decision of the majority of the
stakeholders is beyond its mandate and runs counter with the farm
workers interest.
“It is not only DAR delaying the process but its
also making the beneficiaries powerless. The DAR once again shows its
brazen arrogance and contempt over their clients’ prerogative. It is an
abuse of their mandate,” the group said.
But the activist party-list
group expressed optimism the auditing process will be convincing and
acceptable to involved parties if DAR should end its politicking and
keep HLI out of the picture.
“Clearly, the Cojuangco-led HLI dictates
the phase of the audit process. DAR was merely their instrument to
legitimize its part on the auditing despite it is the one subjected for
financial scrutiny. Just like their maneuvers on the distribution
process. This is their gameplan to deliberately mislead the process to
prolong the audit because the president and his relatives have no plans
to open HLI books of records unless it is done by no other than their
trusted cohorts inside the Reyes-Tacandong and KPMG to absolve them on
paying the P1.33 billion they owed to the farm worker beneficiaries. HLI
and its audit firm cohorts should be banned from the process,” Hicap
said.
Meanwhile, braving the 37-degree summer heat, more than 200
Hacienda Luisita farmers and supporters started their caravan to Manila
this morning, according to militant Web site bulatlat.com.
Dubbed as
“Lakbayan para sa Libreng Pamamahagi ng Lupa sa Hacienda Luisita,” the
activity marks the first year of the Supreme Court decision ordering the
distribution of some 6,000-hectare sugar plantation controlled by the
family of President Aquino.
Led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng
Pilipinas (KMP), Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura UMA, Alyansa ng
mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) and the United
Luisita Workers Union (ULWU), the farmers started their march from
Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac province.
As of yesterday afternoon, the marchers have reached San Nicolas Church in Capas, Tarlac.
They were expected to arrive and spend the night in Angeles City in Pampanga.
“It
has been a year since the Supreme Court decided to distribute the
Hacienda and we are back on the streets to continue our fight for the
free distribution of lands,” ULWU chairman Lito Bais said in a
statement.
“We cannot trust the DAR to distribute the lands as it is
clearly an instrument of the Cojuangco-Aquinos to perpetuate their
control over our lands,” Bais said.
In the same vein, Anakpawis Rep.
Rafael Mariano said, “There is no truth to the Department of Agrarian
Reform’s claim that the distribution of Hacienda Luisita is on track.
Twelve months after the SC decision, farmworker-beneficiaries are still
waiting in vain to own the lands that they have tilled for decades.”
The DAR is mandated to implement the high court decision, released in February, the final list of beneficiaries.
A
week after, Agrarian Reform Sec.Virgilio delos Reyes said farm workers
will not get any land if they will not sign a written commitment to pay
for the land and to make it productive.
“As long as Aquino controls
the DAR and the sham Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program remains, the
farm workers should be ready for another protracted battle to reclaim
Hacienda Luisita from the Cojuangcos,” KMP deputy sec. gen. Willy
Marbella said.
The famers also challenged senatorial candidates to
replace the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) with “a new and
genuine agrarian reform law to realize the free distribution of
Hacienda Luisita.”
“The bogus CARP is the biggest stumbling block to Hacienda Luisita’s distribution,” Marbella said.
He
maintained that “the CARP was crafted by the Cojuangcos” to evade the
distribution of the sugar plantation to its farm workers.
In 1989,
during the administration of the late president Corazon Aquino, the
Cojuangcos made use of the stock distribution option scheme of the CARP
to evade actual land distribution.”
“Today, the Cojuangcos are making
use of the provisions of the CARP to deny the farm workers of their
hard-earned legal victory,” Marbella said.
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Miyerkules, Agosto 13, 2014
SUPPORTER NI AQUINO JIM PAREDES
NABULOK NA RAW ITONG GAGONG ITO. HETONG SI JIM PAREDES, GAGO TO. MASARAP PUKPOKIN NG MARTILYO SA ULO!!!
KAWATAN SA IMMIGRATION
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UNDER ORDERS FROM "MALACANANG"
CHECK IT OUT WITH THE BI INSIDERS TO VERIFY.
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Presidential duplicity
By
Manila Standard Today | Aug.
14, 2014 at 12:01am
Once upon a time, President Benigno Aquino
III gave us the sense that he despised his job so much that he could not wait
his term to be over.But he had the legacy of his parents to live up to, and as he said in his most recent State of the Nation Address just less than a month ago, he felt he had no choice but to take this path that seems to have been carved out for him.
In the past four years, the yellow ribbon-sporting President has made his mark by saying one thing and then doing another.
For instance, he said he would tread the straight path by going after the corrupt in government. In fact, he has only gone after his perceived political opponents —a Supreme Court Chief Justice who had the audacity to lead an adverse ruling on the Cojuangco family’s estate in Tarlac, and the President who had appointed him just before she stepped down.
Everybody else is presumed guilty until proven otherwise— except his men and women who continue to enjoy his trust and who must be deemed innocent until proven guilty. There is, however, no means for proof to be established because they are never charged and prosecuted in the first place.
He also was adamant about attempts to amend the 1987 Constitution, crafted and ratified when his mother was President, even though proposals meant only to change the economic provisions and make the country more open and competitive.
But in an interview with News5’s legal analyst Mel Sta Maria, Mr. Aquino revealed on Wednesday that his position was not cast in stone after all. And no, he made no mention of greater foreign investments and competitiveness as factors that has changed his mind. Instead, he felt the powers of the Supreme Court were limitless and had to be clipped—the result, no doubt, of the Court’s surprise adverse and unanimous vote against his brainchild, the Disbursement Acceleration Program.
Mr. Aquino suggested that the Judiciary—one of the three supposedly Independent branches of government—has been using its power much too often.
Of course, a happy coincidence would be the possibility of running for a second term, as Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas suggested a week ago. At that time, many thought Roxas was plain silly, or plain desperate, but now it appears he has been in the loop in the Grand Plan, after all.
We now have it straight from the President’s mouth that his decision to go for a second term would all depend on what the people, his supposed bosses, want. The yarn is that the people have been enjoying the benefits of good governance and reforms he has instituted. They want him to carry on.
It’s a clamor he must heed, he hinted. But it is a clamor that we find difficult to imagine—what with his declining approval ratings and the increasing frustration with his arrogance, self-righteousness and duplicity.
With these pronouncements, President Aquino has marked the beginning of his downfall. Anybody who still believes he operates in good faith must now consider that the President’s feel-good talk is mostly hot air.
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Sabado, Agosto 2, 2014
MASAMANG ASAL
The President’s bad faith
By Emil Jurado | Jul. 22, 2014 at 12:01amDespite attempts of the Aquino administration to make the public think that the Disbursement Acceleration Program did good for the economy and public interest, the controversy is a no-brainer.
There are three branches of government: the Legislative (keeper of the purse by annually enacting the General Appropriations Act), the Executive (which implements the GAA and all other laws), and the Judiciary, which sees to it that the law and the Constitution are rightfully observed.
Thus, when either the Legislative or the Executive goes out of bounds —like when players commit a foul during a basketball game—the referee, the Judiciary, calls the shots.
Well, when the Executive went out of bounds by creating the DAP, authorizing the President to disburse and allocates public funds, a function of the legislative, the Supreme Court says, “Hey, that’s not your function! That’s Congress’ function! Thus, when you commit something illegal or unconstitutional, you are accountable and liable.”
Similarly, in the case of the PDAF or Priority Development Assistance Fund, which was ruled by the Supreme Court as illegal and unconstitutional, the Court said: “Hey, you senators and congressmen, it’s not your job to implement the PDAF by having your pork barrel funds go to agencies or beneficiaries of your choice. That’s the job of the implementing agencies or the Executive.”
What’s worse in the case of DAP is that it was used to bribe congressmen and senators to impeach, convict and oust Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The revelation that 90 percent of the DAP went to legislators speaks volumes on what the President did.
When President Aquino threatened the Supreme Court that by ruling the DAP was unconstitutional, a head-to-head confrontation could ensue which would require the intervention of the third branch of government (meaning Congress, whose members could file an impeachment case against the justices), he was actually speaking like a despot. What he is telling us is that he can use the people’s money in any way he wants. And that’s bad faith.
As a former congressman and senator, the President knows that he could just have sought a supplemental budget for that purpose. But he did not. Instead, he and his Budget Secretary, who was also a former lawmaker and thus should have known better, created the DAP surreptitiously.
As they say in Filipino “na buking sila (they were caught red-handed)!” In the same vein, if President Aquino and Abad, and every lapdog in Congress, would like to pursue the notable programs of the DAP, they can still file a supplemental budget for that purpose instead of going against the Supreme Court.
Summing it up, as former Chief Justice Reynato Puno said, the DAP was worse than the PDAF since the latter was a law under the GAA. The DAP was not. President Aquino must have thought that they could fool his “bosses” by arrogating unto himself the functions of Congress to use public funds to serve his purposes.
The unfortunate aspect of it is that Mr. Aquino is still immune from suits as President. He could be impeached, which will most likely not prosper. Abad however could be charged with malversation of public funds.
But, instead of Abad taking the bullet for the President, it’s latter taking the bullet for Abad. That’s the sad part of it because to the President’s mind, if Abad goes down, he may go down with him.
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Sabado, Nobyembre 16, 2013
DEAD VOTERS
Alam mo pareng Mokong, ang sama talaga ng gobyerno natin.
Para silang mga walang mga puso.
Biru mo eh, nagkakamatayan na nga, pinapalista pa ang mga pangalan. Tapos bibigyan pa ng mga certificate of attendance. Kung bakit hindi nalang muna nila pakainin ang mga sinalanta?
Kaya tuloy nagmumukha na silang mga karakter sa pelikula.
Tsk Tsk.
Para silang mga walang mga puso.
Biru mo eh, nagkakamatayan na nga, pinapalista pa ang mga pangalan. Tapos bibigyan pa ng mga certificate of attendance. Kung bakit hindi nalang muna nila pakainin ang mga sinalanta?
Kaya tuloy nagmumukha na silang mga karakter sa pelikula.
Tsk Tsk.
Miyerkules, Oktubre 16, 2013
SINUNGALING!
IBANG GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
EVEN FROM THOSE WHO HAVE THEIR OWN SPECIAL CHARTERS LIKE THE LANDBANK OF THE PHILIPPINES, GSIS, BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION, PAGASA, CUSTOMS.
WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?
SA GITNA NG KAHIRAPAN NG BANSANG ITO, NAGBIBIGAY KA PA NG BONUSES TO A SELECT FEW AMOUNTING TO MILLIONS OF PESOS?
WHILE WE, ORDINARY PROFESSIONALS AND WORKERS SLAVE EVERY DAY TO MAKE THINGS WORK?
WHAT KIND OF ANIMALS ARE YOU PEOPLE?
DAPAT PATAYIN KA RIN. IN FACT, THE SUPPORTERS OF THIS BLOG INSIST THAT YOU, TOGETHER WITH DANDING, PEPING, TONYBOY, MARK COJUANGCO, KRIS AQUINO, MAR ROXAS, PURISIMA, DINKY SOLIMAN, HENARES, DELIMA, ABAD, HONRADO, ALCALA, "YOUR INNER CIRCLE" (KILALA NAMIN SILA, KALA MO PUTA KA), YOUR MAKATI CLUB FRIENDS, BE PUT INTO FIRING SQUAD SA LUNETA!
FOR BETRAYAL OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE!
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Martes, Oktubre 15, 2013
ORAS NA! NATIONAL REVOLUTION IS THE ANSWER!!!
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Biyernes, Oktubre 11, 2013
PEOPLE POWER
NINANAKAW NA NI PNOY ANG PERA NATIN SA DAP, PDAF, PSF, PAGCOR, SSS, MWSS AND MALAMPAYA . . . . . .
AT TUMATAHIMIK PA KAYO DIYAN?
DI BA DAPAT PEOPLE POWER NA???
AT TUMATAHIMIK PA KAYO DIYAN?
DI BA DAPAT PEOPLE POWER NA???
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Sabado, Setyembre 14, 2013
Hayop Talaga itong BABOY na ito
P 1.3 TRILLION PESOS IN PORK BARREL
CORRUPT NA GAGO. UNDESERVING OF THE RESPECT AND SUPPORT OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE.
CORRUPT NA GAGO. UNDESERVING OF THE RESPECT AND SUPPORT OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE.
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Sabado, Mayo 11, 2013
PAGBABARILIN NIYO NA KASI SILA
DAR slammed for Luisita audit process maneuvering
- Written by Charlie V. Manalo
- Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:00
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Sabado, Abril 27, 2013
CACIQUE, HACENDERO AND ANTI-MUSLIM!
HOY MAR ROXAS, HUWAG MO KAMING BOLAHIN. ANTI-EMPLOYEE KA RIN!
GAGOOOO!
HACENDERO KANG PUTANG-INA KA!
ANTI-MUSLIM
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