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Poe lashes back at Binay: Country needs honest leaders

By: - Reporter / @MAgerINQ
/ 04:55 PM May 18, 2015

MORE than experience and competence,  what the country  needs is an honest leader,  Senator Grace Poe said on Monday.

Poe was reacting to Vice President Jejomar Binay, who said Sunday that it would be risky to entrust the next government to those without experience and competence.

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She also urged Binay to face the Senate and answer the corruption allegations being thrown against him.

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“Alam mo totoo tama naman sya, kailangang may karanasan at kakayanan pero higit sa lahat, katapatan,” she said when sought for comment on Monday.

“Alam mo sinuportahan nila nun si President Cory na ang unang-unang qualification  ay pagiging tapat. Sa tingin ko naman hindi sa haba ng serbisyo ang kailangang batayan kung hindi kalidad ng serbisyo at katapatan,” said the senator.

Asked  if she  felt alluded  to by Binay’s statement,  the senator said: “Hindi ko naman ipagkakaila na ikumpara sa marami sa kanila, maikli lang ang karansan ko sa gobyerno. Maaaring  ako, maaaring hindi pero yung  kasagutan ko lang nga, simple lang — kalidad ng serbisyo, katapatan  kasama na rin ng  paglilingkod nang magaling.”

“Simpleng sagot lang sa kanya,  ikumapra sa kanya maikli lang ang aking paninibilhan…Pero hindi naman sa pagbubuhat ng bangko,  sa ikli ng panahon na nasa gobyerno ako sinikap ko naman na gumawa nang marami  upang makatulong lalo na sa mahihirap nating mga kababayang naaapi at hindi nadidinig,”  she added.

Asked if she thinks Binay did not possess the  quality  of an honest  leader,  Poe  simply pointed to  corruption allegations that he said the Vice President  himself  has yet to explain.

“Para sa akin mapapatunayan lalo nya kung magpakita sya at eeksplika nya  ang mga paratang sa kanya.  Hindi lang yung mga tagapagsalita  nya kasi kahit ako  hindi maipagkakaila, may pinagsamahan kami kaibigan namin sya pero hindi din namin sya nakakausap tungkol dito,” she said.

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“Gusto rin naming malaman kaya nga ang hirap ding mag-attend ng hearing  na ang mismong pinaparatangan ay hindi sumasama  dahil para bang nagsasalita ka  sa likod ng taong yun. So para sa akin ang huhusga nyan, ang katibayan at ang ng mga kababayan…”   Poe added. AC

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