Biazon raises alarm over soldiers joining ex-DND chief
06/29/2010 Suspicion is up that outgoing acting Defense chief Norberto Gonzales is up to some military mischief, as gleaned from the alarm bells being rung this early by outgoing Sen. Rodolfo Biazon, who joins the House of Representatives as a congressman when Congress opens in next month. Some active soldiers and officers have been lured by outgoing Defense Secretary Gonzales into signing up with his Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas (PDSP) party, he claimed. This was the information that recently reached Senator Biazon just when he raised questions over Gonzales’ pronouncements of putting up a so-called “shadow Cabinet” once he steps down from office. “I would ask the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) to check if there is any soldier who is a card-bearing member of the PDSP because the report was that Gonzales was able to convince some officers and enlisted men to be card-bearing members of the PDSP which is a political party with soldiers espousing a political party. That is a violation of the Constitution,” Biazon told reporters in an interview. Gonzales received numerous criticisms for his pronounced plan of setting up a shadow Cabinet, that will supposedly include retired AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Delfin Bangit — or at least he did come up with a public invitation for General Bangit to join him. Bangit is now no longer part of the service, and can very well join the PSDP, if he chooses to do so. .... MORESource: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100629hed2.html |
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