Erap: LP, NP bets must face music 01/22/2010

‘Noynoy, Manny owe it to the people to tell the truth’ Erap: LP, NP bets must face music 01/22/2010 Former President Joseph Estrada weighed in on the dual controversies hounding both Liberal Party (LP) presidential candidate Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino and Nacionalista Party (NP) standard bearer Sen. Manuel Villar, advising both bets to face the charges frontally and answer the respective charges leveled against them. Both presidential contenders have refused to answer the allegations of conflict of interest and overpricing of their properties in rights of way payments... Villar stands accused of having committed an “unethical conduct as a senator of the Republic and has, by committing such violations, damaged the integrity of the Senate as an institution.” ... Aquino is also being dogged by charges of the Aquino-Cojuangco family of having profited from an overpriced Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTX), an overpriced payment for the right of way in Hacienda Luisita by government, along with having a private road leading to the Hacienda paid for by the government..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100122hed1.html

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