Binay: Aquino government ‘palpak’

Selective justice

He slammed “selective justice” under the Aquino administration and said he would not allow only a few friends and allies to reap the benefits of development.

Saying he had been quietly doing his work in the Cabinet for the past five years as head of the government housing programs and responding to the needs of overseas Filipino workers, Binay said that he had gone around the country and their common concern was that they never felt the progress that the administration has been harking about.

And while he said he had always fought past battles he faced during martial law and after the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution, he said he had also faced battles within the Aquino administration.

He said that under the Aquino administration, he and his family had become the object of scorn and threatened with arrests to get him out of the way of those seeking political power.

And while he said he and his family were being pressured and persecuted, the administration was just allowing its allies and party mates to commit widespread anomalies.

Binay mentioned the Disbursement Acceleration Program, the Priority Development Assistance Fund of their party mates and friends, the alleged extortion from the Metro Railway Transit and the massacre of 44 members of the Special Action Forces.

Crooked governance

He said the administration did not prosecute officials who stopped the release of the 2013 internal revenue allotment of local governments when it knew that many of the cities and barangays were depending on the IRA.

“This is crooked justice and governance. What is prevailing is selective justice,” he said.

He said administration allies and friends had a different brand of justice and benefits and nothing for the poor.

“There is a limit to the patience of a man. Enough is enough (Sobra na, tama na). Why don’t they face me in a clean election?”

Binay warned that many of the administration allies who would run in 2016 had no chance of winning in a clean and fair elections and would resort to lies, violate the law, and spend the money of the nation.

The Vice President also thanked his supporters who continued to trust him as shown in latest surveys, despite the vilification campaign against him.

He also told the poor he could take whatever dirt his opponents would throw at him but that he could not bear to see continued poverty.

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