Noy no show in disaster meet
10/19/2010President Aquino was expected to preside over the disaster preparedness meeting organized by the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) yesterday morning at 9, but was a no-show, which absence gave rise to speculations that he again failed to get up on time to make it to the meeting.
Talk has been swirling for months that Aquino is a late riser and begins his work day at 11 a.m and cuts off at 5 pm.
Aquino was instead represented by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. and two of his Communications Group officials — Secretaries Ricky Carandang and Edwin Lacierda — who all claimed that the President has other more important meetings to attend that day.
According to Ochoa, the President had been informed since Sunday night by Defense Secretary and NDRRMC chairman Voltaire Gazmin that government preparations for super typhoon Juan have so far been put in place and so he has nothing to worry about it.
“All agencies that are members of this risk reduction committee are already on hand and well-prepared for any eventuality,” Ochoa told reporters in a chance interview..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101019hed1.html
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