From ‘persecuted’ to persecutor
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Sen. Ping Lacson should really be more careful when he says that Mike Arroyo’s brother, Iggy, can be charged with falsification of public documents, by way of what Lacson said were false lease contracts entered into between the Arroyo family firm, LTA Inc. and Lion Air on the lease of the contoversial five helicopters, two of which have been sold to the Philippine National Police as brand new.
The reason Lacson has to be more careful is that he is in the same spot as Iggy, in that there have been categorical statements made by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Lacson’s travel document being bogus — and who else is the authority to state what is a bogus or genuine travel document if not the DFA itself since this agency is the very body that releases such travel documents?
Lacson of course claims that his travel document is genuine, in much the same way Iggy passes off the lease agreement as genuine, but in the case of Iggy’s documents, it is Lacson, a senator, along with some of the senator-allies of Noynoy, who say this agreement is a fake, and frankly, they are hardly the authority, nor are some of them even impartial, given the fact that while they point out the many “lapses” in the lease contract, few, if any, among the senators in the chopper hearing, pointed to the fact of their witness and “whistle-blower” Archibald Po of Lion Air being caught in a big lie.
Po claimed during one Senate hearing that Lion Air couldn’t provide Mike Arroyo five choppers to be leased at that time, since then opposition presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., had already leased all the choppers for his campaign, with Po giving a certain date Poe leased the choppers..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110818com2.html
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