Time to go
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) should have been abolished a long time ago.
In truth, it should not even have been created because the sequestration rules were not being followed at all.
When government sequesters properties, the usual course is to have these under the control of the courts that has a wealth of experience in administering sequestration cases.
As things went during the Cory and Ramos regimes — especially the Cory regime, even her edict on this was violated by her own government, as it is clearly stated in her first ever fiat that ownership of the sequestered assets must first be established, after which, government has to prove that the sequestered assets were ill-gotten.
But what happened during the Cory regime was that even without proving ownership; even without proving that these assets were ill-gotten, government quickly sold many of these assets, with a lot of these sales sold at bargain prices, and some even to those who were appointed to head such sequestered companies, with funds going to private pockets. Talk of corruption in the claimed sainted Cory Aquino government and there certainly was..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110112com2.html
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