Jinggoy urges Noynoy to draw off Davide’s Truth Commission stint
07/05/2010 Sen. Jinggoy Estrada has appealed to President Aquino to reconsider his decision to appoint former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. as head of the Truth Commission which would investigate wrongdoings believed to have been committed by former President Arroyo and her allies during her nine-and-a-half-year rule. “With all due respect, Mr. President, I believe you have the purest intentions in choosing a person you believe to be most competent to head the Truth Commission. However, I share the view of so many sectors in our country that Mr. Davide is not that man for the job,” Estrada, in a statement, yesterday said. The senator stressed: “For one, Mr. Davide is a person widely known as tainted with blatant disregard, if not gross and direct violation, of the rule of law especially when he, during the impeachment trial against my father, former President Jo-seph Ejercito Estrada, allowed the manipu-lation of the said trial which led, as planned by the conspirators, to the so-called Edsa II power grab grand design.”.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100705hed2.html |
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