‘Dinky has nothing to fear?’
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
So, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Dinky Soliman has nothing to fear about her reported involvement in the controversial issuance of the P10-billion Peace Bonds in the early days of the Arroyo administration in 2001? I really hope so. After all, she has been quoted as having said that she had nothing to do with the bonds since she was already out of Code-NGO, the NGO network she headed for years which was the original proponent of this “creative financing” scheme for which the Filipino taxpayer will fork out P35 billion on maturity next year. She does not have any qualms about each one of us paying that debt burden at all. As such, she does not also find it strange and problematic that Code-NGO is the recipient of a P1.3-billion commission for this financial brainstorm. In a word, her conscience is clear.
All of these she testily advised over the past few weeks as the public got to appreciate the seriousness of the whacking our taxpayers got just to exact more than a billion pesos of commissions for Soliman’s favorite NGO. The question now is: If indeed she did not have anything to fear or hide why did she snub the first hearing on the issue last week to the consternation of the Palace? What made her think that the committee members which included such wisened legislators as Sorsogon Rep. Sonny Escudero would take her lame excuse that she had to “rush to meet with Maguindanao Gov. Toto Mangudadatu,” thus her inability to attend. And she did this at the last minute mind you. Surely, that act and her subsequent whinings do not tally with her posturings of calm and courage under fire. Rather, these merely reinforce the long held public view that she is cowering in fear and will try as best she can to utter a word under oath..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101202com4.html
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