Impeach a smokescreen
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The impeachment of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez appears to have become Noynoy’s focus for want of any other achievement in his avowed battle against corruption.
Creating an enemy to have the people rally against has been the practice for so long of many governments that have become bereft of public support.
Gutierrez is not exactly the ideal Ombudsman since she carries the stigma of having close associations with the past leadership but looking at the history of her office, a predecessor, Aniano Desierto, suffered the same fate of being similarly accused of conspiring with former President Fidel Ramos, whom he incidentally cleared of all charges of corruption in an expo scam, but unlike Gutierrez, he safely finished his full term, a big portion of which was under the abbreviated presidency of Joseph Estrada.
Noynoy claims that Gutierrez will be an obstacle in efforts to make former President Arroyo and government officials who served under her answerable for graft cases already with the Ombudsman or those to be filed against them and he had made it clear on several occasions that he wants her out of the anti-graft office..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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