Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Monday said she intends to get back at fellow senators who snubbed her hearing over resigned Interior secretary Rico E. Puno Friday by not attending Senate sessions this week.
Zambales Representative Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay on Monday said that the House of Representatives’ decision to drop its plans of looking into allegations on resigned interior undersecretary Rico E. Puno was part of the administration’s attempt at damage control.
Why let President Benigno Aquino’s friend Rico E. Puno so easily off the hook?
Why let the President’s friend, Rico E. Puno, so easily off the hook?
After starting and ending a Senate inquiry—in just one day—into resigned Interior Undersecretary Rico Puno’s anomalous position in the Department of the Interior and Local Government on Friday, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago appears to have moved on, returning to her advocacy of the RH bill.
After emerging unscathed from a Senate grilling, resigned Interior Undersecretary Rico E. Puno is escaping questioning in a House inquiry into an allegedly irregular police firearms deal.
The so-called backers of resigned Interior Undersecretary Rico E. Puno and the financiers of “jueteng” remain a mystery as Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago failed to unmask them at a Senate public hearing on Friday.
Several high-profile officials have been linked to the illegal numbers game jueteng over the years, including former President Joseph Estrada and members of the family of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, now a Pampanga representative.
Has Rico E. Puno been uprooted for good? Or will he be “earth-balled” into another plum post under the Aquino administration?
Despite the controversies swirling around resigned interior undersecretary Rico E. Puno, President Benigno Aquino III is said to be thinking of a “nice and quiet job” for his shooting buddy. The news item had me wondering whether or not the President is just moved by a debt of gratitude for Puno who is said to [...]
Militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan called on President Benigno Aquino III to keep resigned Interior undersecretary Rico Puno out of government.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago dared Interior Undersecretary Rico Puno on Tuesday to just step down from his post out of delicadeza.
President Benigno Aquino III on Saturday night confirmed that he ordered the offices of Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo locked down immediately after the Cabinet official’s plane crashed on Aug. 18, and gave that task to Interior Undersecretary Rico Puno.
