A waste of public funds
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Frankly, the creation of the truth body is a waste of money — some P80 million of it in the 2010 budget, mainly because it is powerless and it may well be as powerless as the IIRC panel, which worked hard to get at the bottom of the botched hostage rescue, indicting several officials and police officers, only for Noynoy and his legal counsels to overturn the sanctions and absolve his buddy and allies, as the claim was that the panel’s findings were only recommendatory.
In much the same way, Noynoy Aquino also threw out the findings and recommendations of the Feliciano fact finding commission on what the executive must do to stop the coups d’etat and military adventurism, which definitely should ban amnesty for rebel soldiers.
Noynoy issued a grant of amnesty, even claiming this order to be executory with his signing, which is flawed, as such cannot be implemented unless and until Congress concurs in it.
Also, it was the wrong time to issue an amnesty offer, considering that the promulgation of the judge handling the Magdalo coup d’etat charge was just days away, which showed Noynoy’s disrespect for the judiciary..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101016com2.html
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