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Guv
calls for sobriety amid
ZTE-NBN issue
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Gov.
Erico Aumentado has called on the Boholanos to exercise
calmness and sobriety in the wake of the controversy
stirred by former Philippine Forest Corp. executive
Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr.
Lozada
is the star witness in the ongoing Senate hearing on
the scuttled $329-million National Broadband Network
(NBN) deal with China's ZTE Corp.
Aumentado issued the call in his weekly program The
Governor Reports aired live over three radio stations
in Bohol and delayed broadcast over a fourth. Two of
the stations are also heard around the globe through
the Internet.
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AUMENTADO |
"Let
us rally behind our Constitution and the flag, and be one
in our support for the administration of President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo," he said.
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"This
is time for unity and prayer - not for noisy rallies
- so that the many projects we have been proposing to
the NEDA [National Economic and Development Authority]
Board under President Arroyo will be realized,"
he said.
Under
no other chief executive except President Arroyo has
Bohol experienced progress by leaps and bounds, he added.
He also praised Bishop Leonardo Medroso of the Diocese
of Tagbilaran for similarly issuing such calls to the
faithful, and for giving his opinion and choice advice
to his colleagues and the local clergy to also appeal
for calmness - not stoke the fire of controversy now
gripping the nation.
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Aumentado
emphasized that the Filipinos do not need another EDSA.
"What
gains did we get from the administrations of former Presidents
Corazon Aquino and Joseph Estrada - the beneficiaries of EDSA
1 and 2?" he asked.
The
governor does not find any wisdom in changing horses in midstream.
"But if we must change leaders before her term ends,
it should be by impeachment, with the process starting at
the House of Representatives, not by people power," he
said after Rep. Jose de Venecia (Pangasinan, 4th District)
joined the opposition following his ouster from the Speakership.
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