Violating the law
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Malacañang just doesn’t get it, or refuses to get it.
It is not a question of which party loses or wins the arbitration cases filed by both Fraport AG and Philippine International Air Terminals Corp. (Piatco) in these instances, but a question of the Noynoy administration obeying that which the Philippine Constitution provides in cases of government expropriating private property. Government must pay compensation for expropriating the private property, something which government — whether the Arroyo government or the Aquino government — has not done, even as the Aquino government continues to possess the Ninoy Aquino International Airport 3 (NAIA 3) and even goes to the extent of exercising ownership rights, in clear violation of the Supreme Court (SC) ruling.
And yet Noynoy who claims to uphold and defend the Constitution and the law, has been violating both the Charter and the law, with him, through his spokesmen, insisting that the government had already won the case at the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) in Singapore that the Palace spokesmen claimed allowed the government to have full possession of the NAIA 3 and even exercise ownership rights — as Malacañang has been doing by way of granting concession rights and even attempting to get the airline companies to transfer their offices at the airport terminal — and making money out of it too, while refusing to pay the required compensation to the owners and operators..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110105com1.html
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