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MANILA.
Commission on Higher Education Chairman Romulo Neri
is scheduled to meet with a group of former priests
and seminarians, all from Bohol in an undisclosed place
in Metro Manila tonight.
The
Chronicle source said the scheduled meeting was arranged
to "allow the Boholano national official to confide
with a group he is very comfortable with."
Neri,
58, is the son of former NAMARCO Chief German Neri,
a Boholano.
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With
the recent turn of events, Neri has reportedly been very selective
on persons he would talk with since he can hardly be sure
if these persons he will be talking with are "with him
or against him."
In
fact, a highly placed source told the Chronicle last night
that even cousins of Sec. Neri are extra careful to talk with
him on his cellular phone knowing that his phone lines are
surely being bugged by authorities.
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Tonight's
scheduled meeting will have no more than 15 Boholano
"friends" of Neri.
Until
press time, the Chronicle source said the Ched chairman
could not confirm 100% attendance to the said meeting,
but assured the group he will try his best to be there.
It
was not known if Neri will "tell it all" to
this group prior on whatever major decision he takes
which is expected to come within the next few days.
If he will reveal everything to the public, then it
will just be a confirmation on what has been revealed
by star witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. who is a closed
personal friend of Neri.
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However,
Neri's much awaited statement will be far more credible since
he will be narrating things on a first person revelation.
The
58-year old Neri has been advised by some friends and relatives
to reveal everything and leave for abroad where his professional
skills can very well be hired by multi-national companies
there.
Sec.
Neri was in Tagbilaran City last Jan. 25 to attend the golden
year anniversary of priesthood of Msgr. John Pernia, his cousin.
The
Chronicle chanced upon Sec. Neri at the Metro Centre Hotel
but declined to comment when asked on what will happen next
on the multi-million Bayongan Dam irrigation project which
he questioned while he was NEDA secretary. He exposed the
overpricing of the dam project saying it could be the "country's
most expensive irrigation project." (See separate story)
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