LP drops bombshell land scams vs Villar By Angie M. Rosales 02/13/2010

NP bet rapped for Iloilo ‘rice land conversion’ LP drops bombshell land scams vs Villar By Angie M. Rosales 02/13/2010 Tit for tat, by way of charges and countercharges between two presidential bets. With the Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino accused by the Nacionalista Party (NP) of having benefited from the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, along with his late mother exempting the family’s hacienda from land reform, as well as his family’s refusal to give Hacienda Luisita workers their share of the land and share of the profits, the LP yesterday dropped a bombshell against NP presidential bet Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar as being involved in yet another land and road scam, this time not in Metro Manila but in Iloilo province. LP’s former Sen. Franklin Drilon who is seeking a Senate seat, dropped the bombshell which Villar quickly denied. Drilon’s accusation against Villar made during a press conference of the LP in Sta. Barbara, Iloilo, was in reference to the alleged illegal conversion of a 12.7 prime agricultural land that was under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) into a subdivision... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/headlines/20100213hed1.html

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