Pyesta na naman!
A new witness for the NBN ZTE mess has surfaced. For weeks, national headlines are dominated by the rice and other sorts of crisis. There is this energy crisis which ironically was reported to the media by Sec. Angie Reyes himself as if the purpose was to make people so alarmed, reeling from one crisis to another. National news have become boring that I tend to concentrate on local issues but with these new developments my fingers are working frenziedly on the keyboard.
The Palace is obviously caught by surprise of this new development. Their spokespersons are issuing contradicting statements very much like what happened to them during the time the Hello Garci bomb exploded.
There’s this Anthony Golez whose immediate reaction was to challenge the witness to sue GMA in court which all of the people know is a hollow challenge since the President is immune from suit. The Ombudsman will be more than ready to dumped the case pronto.
Then there’s this ZTE executive who denied that GMA and husband Mike Arroyo went to China to visit them on some particular dates as alleged by the new witness.
You think it’s the end of the story, another spokesperson, contradicted the ZTE official by saying that there was indeed a meeting between ZTE and Gloria Arroyo on November 2006. Maybe denying it is not convincing enough, the Palace realized it would be better to admit the meeting but sell it as something casual, like a meeting with any other foreign investor.
Ms. Lorelei Fajardo said the meeting was not secret. Really, but if the meeting was not that secret why is it that it was not reported in the media? The people would have had understand had the meeting occurred in the Philippines but then again, this will always be carried on by the media given the need for media coverage of this administration to even at least improve its public approval rating. A meeting of this magnitude would give a big publicity boost to the administration given the enormity of the project that is supposed to benefit the Filipino people. However this meeting occurred in a foreign country and what is bewildering is that it was done low key. Our leader visited a foreign country without being accorded a dignity of a head of state. What was apparently shown is that our President was travelling incognito in a foreign country! The question that begs an answer is why is it that the meeting was done in low key? Why? Because the government do their work in silence and do not want to brag its accomplishments?
But that is unbelievable!
