Palace not giving up on Truth Commission
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 02/06/2011The Palace will not let go of President Aquino’s desire to form the Truth Commission, saying that it will pursue with the Supreme Court efforts to justify Executive Order 1 that created the truth body and which the tribunal had ruled as unconstitutional because of the equal protection clause in the Charter.
Presidential Communications Secretary Ramon Carandang welcomed but expressed no commitment yet on behalf of Malacañang when asked to comment on Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s suggestion that instead of fighting for the Truth Commission, Aquino might just as well come up with an anti-graft council to look into the current and previous allegations of corruption in the government.
Before Aquino assumed the presidency, there was already an existing Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) attached to the Office of the President but Aquino through Executive Order 13 abolished the agency in late November last year and transferred all its investigative functions to the Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs (Odesla).
Cayetano had said that a new anti-graft and corruption council could help Aquino start investigations on several scandals that rocked the previous administration..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110206hed2.html
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