Whitewash seen in Noy’s delay in baring hostage report
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 10/07/2010For the umpteenth time, President Aquino delayed making public the charges against those indicted by the Incident Investigation and Review Committee’s (IIRC) report, and the actions he will be taking against them, saying that he still needs to review his counsels’ reviewed report, which was supposed to have been reviewed by his communications group to cut the “legalese.”
With the long delay in baring these two reports to the public, strong suspicion of Malacañang sanitizing the charges as well as a widescale Palace whitewash rose, as Department of Interior and Local Government Undersecretary Rico Puno, whom Aquino described as being the “most trustworthy” with qualities that are hard to find in others, told Senate reporters in a chance interview yesterday that he is no longer going to resign his post or submit a courtesy resignation since Aquino told him to continue with his job at the DILG.
“I was about to resign but the President told me to continue on,” Puno told reporters after attending a Senate hearing on the jueteng controversy.
Aquino the other day promised that by yesterday, he would make public the withheld portions of the IIRC report simultaneously with the review of the report conducted by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr.
and Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Eduardo de Mesa, saying he will be devoting more of his time in writing his own report to the nation on his achievements accomplished during his 100 first days..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101007hed1.html
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