Anti-corruption drive gains top Aquino SONA—Palace

4:38 pm | Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

President Benigno Aquino III. AP FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino III will report on what his anti-corruption campaign has done the past year and tell the country his plans for the next 365 days, when he addresses Congress for his state of the nation address on Monday, Palace deputy spokesperson Abigail Valte said Saturday.

Valte said these were the themes of Aquino’s speech but did not get into the details of the address, saying she did not want to preempt the President’s speech.

“If we’ll recall, the President was elected in 2010 because of his promise of his anti-corruption program among our priorities. He will now show how we have fulfilled that promise in the one year or so that he has been in office,” Valte said on radio.

“Second, he will discuss where he wants to take us in a year’s time,” she added.

Valte said the public would have to wait for these details until he delivers his speech on Monday as Congress resumes session.

Originally posted at 2:38 p.m.

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Anonymous

Hopeless Like mother, like son…. Para tuloy akong nano-nood ng 2012 movie hehehe… buti nalang at plano ko pang another 15 years abroad… Goodbye Philippines I hope someday pagbalik ko may pag-asa na.. I think mga kababayan natin they need to learn it on hardway.. Patapusin nyo nalang si Noy2x atleast naglilinis siya ng corruption next president nalang tayo umasa ulit hehehe

Anonymous

Tama ka, hindi magiging madali para ke PNOY ang paglilinis lalo na at nasalaula na ni GMA ang gobyerno sa lahat ng ahensya ng pamahalaan.

Dapat lang na patuloy tayong umasa at ganun din na may dapat tayong gawin, kahit sa mga maliliit na paraan.
Anonymous

Mabuti na lang at umalis ka sa Pilipinas. Hindi kailangan ng bayan ang mga katulad mo. At habang nasa abroad ka mag-aral ka rin ng kaunting english grammar. Ayos ba Pedro Pendejo? I mean Penduco.

Anonymous

tama @tonito dapat talaga mag-aral ako kasi dito unlike sa pinas lahat ng english mo as long as nai-intindihan acceptable… nag lelearn pa ako sa culture nila hahaha… oo yes umalis ako sa pilipinas but may naiwan ako dyan regalo ko sa mga kababayan natin tatlong negosyo pang limos sa mga katuload mo..
Anonymous

I’ve been living abroad for forty three years now and I can proudly claim that I am successful in my chosen profession and presently living in a gated community. Thank you for your “limos” and if you wish to meet me personally just say so and I’ll be very happy to accommodate you.

Marilou Syjueco

When GMA stole the presidency from Erap back in 2001, I gave her three years to prove that it was not a mistake that I applauded Erap’s ouster . By early 2004, when she decided to turn back on her word that she would not run for president come May, I knew we erred in what was known (and should be forgotten, I may add) EDSA 2. I waited till 2010. There was no way she could be ousted. The little girl had everyone in government wrapped around her little fingers as she showed us how she learned from the mistakes of Ferdinand and Imelda. She did not have to declare Martial Law. She just needed to share the loot with everybody who would be willing to steal for her as we are now already finding out one by one with the various government agencies being revealed as erstwhile piggy banks of the otherwise illegitimate immediate past president. Noynoy like his mother, may be an accidental president but they fulfill the same unenviable task–to clean up after their extremely rotten predecessors. Those who expect a complete clean-up after one year is asking too much. Look, I waited for nine years so that I could feel HOPE again for this country. Things may not be looking up all at once under Cory’s son but I now wake up in the morning with a smile on my face because I know that the guy I helped send to Malacanang is not robbing me blind.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TNVY5PMFNA4CJKSOSZLILVZ45U marilou

To enumerate the wrongdoings of one’s predecessor is not vengeance. We cannot just move forward with so many cases unresolved. That precisely is why many crooks continue to make it into government. They rob us blind and we allow them to get away with it. The ones who continue to thumbs down P-Noy just could not get over the fact that he, Mr. least-likely-to be-president, is now in Malacanang.
Anonymous

better yet, State of Noy Abnoy.
Anonymous

“Anti-corruption drive gains top Aquino SONA—Palace”
Ito ang mali ng Pnoy administration. He is brandishing, announcing to the Pilipino people and the whole wordl that we are corrupt as a race and as a people, coming from the mouth of the President.

Di ba kung hindi maganda pinapalitan, so when Pnoy assumed the Presidency he changed the whole GMA administration. That is one way of cleaning any corruption. Ika nga bagong laba, hindi bagon bili dahil bagong luma rin ang gabinete ni Pnoy.
Ipakita na lang niya ang kanyang nagawa hindi yang Corruption ang topic, ang corruption is a moral spiritual perception, depende yan sa interpretation.
Lahat ng ahensiya ng gobyerno kahit sa buong mundo, america man o england lahat yan corrupt because of political power which has an advantage against ordinary people.

Yan anti corruption tema ni Pnoy panahon pa yan ni Marcos,already redundant thing, that is political.
There are more important things to do than this corruption thing.
It is not good that Pnoy always do the laundry in public, medyo kita ang dumi. Yan paglalaba pang katulong lang yan. Dapat Pnoy as President should make an executive decision not doing laundry.
Anonymous

More Arroyo Anomaly….
1.- P50-million bribe to FG for the president’s veto of two franchise bills
2.The additional funding led to a 41-percent spike in advertising expenses, from P76.129 million in 2008 to P107.420 million in 2009, which went mostly to ads for Arroyo’s achievements.
3.The report said the PIA received from the Department of Budget and Management a notice of cash allocations amounting to P344.789 million, even though only P222.488 million was appropriated for it under the national budget.
4.- Denial of pork barrel funds to Malacanang’s political enemies
5.- Praises for Jovito Palparan, alleged mastermind of extra judicial killings of militants
6.- Removal of govt bodyguards for former pres and Arroyo critic, Cory Aquino
7.- Appointment of manicurist as a member of the board of Pag-Ibig
8.- Appointment of gardener as deputy of the Luneta Park Administration.
9.- Midnight appointment of an Arroyo lapdog, Renato Corona, as SC Chief Justice

- 200+ other illegal midnight appointments
10.- Mikey Arroyo’s undeclared properties in California
11.- Pardon of controversial convicted criminals like Ninoy’s murderers
12.- EO 464; requiring Cabinet members to seek presidential clearance before testifying in Congress hearings

13.- Promise (on Rizal Day) to not run for the presidency in 2004

14.- “Vote Buying” by giving away Philhealth cards

15.- Taxpayers’ money for her giant billboards and and PCSO tv campaign ads[/b]

16- Appointment of Ben Abalos, a staunch GMA ally, as COMELEC chair
17.- Mikey Arroyo’s importation of 32 thoroughbred horses from Australia worth P384 million.
18.Former First Gentleman Mike
Anonymous

Arroyo corruption and many more….

1. NBN ZTE Scandal

2. Millions of bribe money to Congressmen and Governors (October 2007)

3. Cheating in 2004 Elections (Hello Garci)

4. Joc Joc Bolante Case (Fertilizer Scam, P728 Million)

5. Jose Pidal Bank Account (Unexplained Wealth, P200 Million)
6. Nani Perez Power Plant Deal ($2 Million)

7. Use of Road User’s Tax for Campaigning

8. Billion Peso Macapagal Boulevard (Overprice of P532 Million)

9. Juetengate? (Illegal Numbers game kickbacks)

10. Extra Judicial Killings
11. Arroyo Moneys in Germany (Exposed by Senator Cayetano)
12. General Garcia and Other Military Men

13. Billion Peso Poll Automation contract to(Mega Pacific) (P1.3 Billion)

14. Northrail Project($503 Million)

15. Maguindanao Results of 2007 Elections (Zubiri, Bedol)

16. NAIA-3

17. Venable Contract (Norberto Gonzales)

18. Swine Scam (Exposed by? Atty. Harry Roque
19. GLORIA Arroyo son hidden assets in united states
20.EURO GENERAL’S
21.CALAMITY FUND SCANDAL.
22.the C-5 road controversy — Senator Manuel Villar
23.P550-million worth of funds from the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA).
24 P780-million LWUA funds-Prospero Pichay
25 Bishop’s SUV-Gloria Pandak Birthday gift
26 Arroyo linked in P325M lotto intelligence fund
27 Arroyo got P200M in kickbacks from govt projects-Zaldy Ampatuan
28.P200.41 billion or $4.6 billion in Malampaya royalties from 2002 to May this year.
29.LACSON ACCUSED FG MIKE ARROYO OF SELLING 3 REFURBISHED HELICOPTERS TO PNP AT P105 MILLION EACH

30. 600,000 metric tons of Rotten rice imported from India.Kishore Hemlani, an Indian trader allegedly close to Arroyo, reportedly bagged the P9.5 billion contract for the rice importation.
Anonymous

Aquino great performance and more….

1. Chinese hostage taking…

2. Taking credit for economic gain in the previous year MONTHS into office

3. Lots of accusations against Gloria but NO COURT CASE YET

4. SC’s overturning of the Vizconde Massacre

5. Extrajudicial killings of journalists and others

6. Pagbasura sa findings na may criminal case against his best friends Puno, Alfredo Lim, Virginia Torres

7. Copying the previous administration’s top programs and passing it as its own…

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