No change forthcoming FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/02/2010

No change forthcoming

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/02/2010 From the announced appointments of Noynoy Aquino, along with the speculated names of his Cabinet, plus the rejection of Aquino’s offers to certain individuals to join his Cabinet, it appears that he wouldn’t be able to form a Cabinet made up of the best and the brightest. As reports have it, the speculated names for the Aquino Cabinet, are composed of the old Gloria Arroyo Cabinet, such as retaining Alberto Romulo as the Foreign Affairs secretary, and for the education portfolio, the former Education secretary of Gloria, Butch Abad, along with others identified with the Hyatt 10 group. But weren’t all of them part of Gloria’s Cabinet for at least five years and in those years, made certain that Gloria would be protected, even when they knew she was using government resources for her 2004 campaign? Even Dinky Soliman admitted, when she cut off from Gloria, that she was already using the poor, and bribing them to attend demonstrations in support of Gloria. And frankly, none of these former Gloria Arroyo Cabinet members were deemed to have made any great changes, by way of reform. As a matter of record, early in 2001, after Arroyo took power, Soliman and her group went on to scam the Filipino people with their P35 billion NGO PeaceBonds that netted for their group a cool P1 billion for which their group does not have to account to the Filipino people. And with the same faces, the Noynoy administration expects to bring about change or cut corruption?... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100602com2.html

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