CHARGES READIED BUT PALACE WON’T SAY AGAINST WHOM
Ex-DA chief dares Noy: Name names on scam
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 01/21/2011President Aquino was dared yesterday to identify those supposedly responsible on his revelation that a single private group has cornered import licenses for about 200,000 metric tons of overpriced rice last year.
Former Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said that Aquino should identify those involved in the alleged anomaly instead of making sweeping statements that are tantamount to trial by publicity against officials of the former administration of President Arroyo.
Malacañang said charges are being built up against those who it did not identify as behind the National Food Authority (NFA) awarding license to a single private group to import about 200,000 metric tons of rice last year.
The NFA has been importing rice of up to 2.5 million metric tons a year, spending from P25 billion to P29
billion annually to purchase mostly rice from Vietnam at the height of a self-fulfilling rice price crisis in 2008..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110121hed1.html
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