Erap: Gloria must be made accountable for past acts 04/28/2011

Erap: Gloria must be made accountable for past acts

04/28/2011
Former President Joseph Estrada yesterday maintained that his successor, former president and current Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo should be made accountable for her past actions and anomalies that surrounded her administration.

“There is the ZTE-NBN broadband deal. There is the fertilizer fund scam. And she cheated my friend, FPJ (Fernando “Ronnie” Poe, Jr.) of his electoral victory in 2004,” he said.

Estrada’s statement came amid the filing of former Solicitor-General Frank Chavez of a complaint for plunder before the Department of Justice (DoJ) against Arroyo, two of her former alter-egos and another high-ranking government official for the alleged misuse of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) funds mainly for purposes of Arroyo’s reelection bid in the 2004 elections.

The 23-page complaint filed at the DoJ on Tuesday named former Arroyo executive secretary and former Foreign Affairs secretary Alberto Romulo, former Arroyo health secretary and current Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chairman Francisco Duque III, and former OWWA administrator Virgilio Angelo as co-respondents..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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