Santiago wants Senate to recall Napoles
By Maila Ager
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago has requested the Senate blue ribbon committee, investigating the pork barrel” scam, to recall detained Janet Lim-Napoles to the witness stand.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago has requested the Senate blue ribbon committee, investigating the pork barrel” scam, to recall detained Janet Lim-Napoles to the witness stand.
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Monday called on the Senate blue ribbon committee to reconvene and summon Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Reyes to testify on the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam.
Malacañang on Monday denied accusations that it had a hand in the return of Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Reyes to the Philippines, in an alleged bid to pin down Senator Juan Ponce Enrile.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago has formally asked the Senate blue ribbon committee to either invite or issue a subpoena to lawyer Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Reyes in connection with the P10 billion “pork barrel” scam.
It’s not farfetched that the Aquino administration has convinced Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Reyes to testify against Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile over the alleged P10-billion pork scam in exchange for her acquittal, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said Sunday.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago is urging advocates of Reproductive Health (RH) law to file a motion for reconsideration on the eight provisions of the law that were struck down by the Supreme Court.
Malacañang on Saturday said it hopes Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago could meet government peace negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer to discuss the legality of the recently signed Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) after Santiago tagged the peace deal as unconstitutional.
While she raised questions about its constitutionality, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Friday said she wasn’t out to scuttle the government’s historic agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago could not help but gloat over the plunder cases filed against three of her colleagues, when she addressed 500 graduates of Gordon College here on Wednesday.
It is high time for Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada and Ramon Revilla Jr. to resign and authorities should put them in a regular jail instead of keeping them under house arrest or in air-conditioned palaces.
The head of the government panel that negotiated peace with the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is seeking to meet with Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, presumably because of the senator’s opinion that the peace deal she negotiated was unconstitutional.
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago said Wednesday the Senate committee on ethics should investigate not only the three senators who have been charged with plunder in connection with the P10-billion pork barrel scam but also the three or four others who had been linked to the scandal by the whistleblowers.
The recently signed Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) appears to facilitate the secession of a Bangsamoro region from the country and, thus, is unconstitutional, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said on Wednesday.
