Chairman Villar
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
Where is this newly organized “anti-corruption” group headed by Ateneo School of Government Professor Anthony La Vina coming from? I ask this question in the light of its latest harangue against Commission on Audit Chairman Reynaldo Villar and, if I get the group’s drift, the CoA itself, for perceived negligence if not downright complicity in the commission of alleged anomalies in the handling of government resources. It is as if they have taken the word of whistle-blowers Col. George Rabusa and his deputy, Col. Antonio Lim, and, of course, former state auditor Heidi Mendoza, at face value. That which they narrated in the ongoing congressional hearings about alleged corruption in the AFP is the unvarnished truth as pure as driven snow. Well, Mendoza and company may have divulged a lot of information about the ways and practices at the AFP and we have to grant that. But all these will have to be winnowed and properly ascertained to insure that they add up, not embellished, as what some quarters are now saying about Rabusa’s testimony. What they have done is open up some windows into the workings of the system which has now allowed us the opportunity to take a second look, find out if the guilty can be charged and, finally, pave the way for legislation and executive action to ensure that the anomalies will not recur or metamorphose into other forms. For if truth be told, we have been hearing a lot of the things they narrated not only in the AFP but in almost all government agencies including the GOCCs. But we have had a hard time putting a face to these and having a handle on how the same could be eradicated, or at the very least, mitigated to manageable levels. Thanks to them we will now have that chance if we push hard enough and sustain the effort to get to the bottom of things..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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