Containergate
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
The tale of 1,900 plus and counting missing containers is getting curioser and curioser. If not totally tangled. Like a sore wound that will not simply go away even as administration officials feverishly try to change the subject with all sorts of headline grabbing initiatives L’Affaire containers may yet turn out to be one of the hallmarks of P-Noy’s second year in office. In fact, it may turn out to be a kind of “containergate” for P-Noy and his crew, especially since the public has not even heard any squeak from the usually loquacious Palace spokesmen on any subject under the sun. Hell, if Secretary Edwin Lacierda can go to some length ridiculing Arroyo legal spokesman “Attorney/Doctor” Raul Lambino for issuing what he called medical bulletins why can’t he even say a word about such an enveloping scandal which, based on rough estimates, involves at least P1.5 billion in lost government revenues resulting from this multibillion-peso smuggling operation. To think that it happened and may still be happening right under the very noses of the highest officials of the land!.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110819com5.html
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