Nograles scores PCIJ for ‘malicious story’ on SALn
By Charlie V. Manalo 06/09/2010 While admitting that he had already expected to be bam-boozled for the failure of the House of Representatives to ratify the Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill, Speaker Prospero Nograles yesterday lashed at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for having gone overboard “unfoundedly attacking” him over allegations of unex-plained wealth. In a text message, Nograles said it was rather obvious that Malou Mangahas of PCIJ, in her story published yesterday, was merely retaliating after the Lower House, due to lack of quorum, failed to ratify the FoI Bill last Friday. “I expected a terrible fallout with the non-passage of the FoI bill but not in so malicious a manner as the PCIJ article. I am now the only culprit solely responsible for non-passage of the FoI Bill and Malou (Mangahas) is training her wrath on me personally,” said Nograles. “I respect her belief. I expect she will also learn to ask why the more vocal proponents of the bill could not help us campaign and to produce warm bodies on the floor for a quorum.” Yesterday, Mangahas claimed that based on their research, PCIJ found out that Nograles, “from 1995, when he first became a congressman,had a net worth of P6.5 million that had jumped to P88.3 million by 2008, or a 1,258-percent increase in a span of almost 14 years.” However, noticeably, Mangahas started her story with Nograles’ failure to steer the House into ratifying the FoI Bill. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100609hed3.html |
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