Press Release | January 11, 2010
Liberal Party Senatorial candidate and former three-term Bukidnon Representative ‘Teacher’ Neric Acosta strongly debunks Manny Villar’s malicious allegation that Senator Noynoy Aquino was not at the forefront of the two impeachment complaints against President Arroyo.
“Both Noynoy and I endorsed the impeachment,” says Acosta of the 7th impeachment complaint in 2006, which was the only complaint that was considered by the Committee on Justice and taken up in plenary session. Acosta and Aquino were both Congressmen at that time.
“In fact, both of us paid a high price for it. Noynoy lost his Deputy Speakership while I lost my chairmanship of the Ecology committee. We both had politically-motivated cases filed against us and lost three years worth of ‘pork barrel’ funds for our districts from 2004 to 2007.”
Acosta adds that “this stands in stark contrast to GMA’s district in Pampanga, which received over at least PhP 459 million in a year’s time.”
‘Teacher’ Neric Acosta stresses that Villar’s attacks against Aquino have already become blatant lies. “He needs to get his facts straightened out,” says Acosta. “We are certain that if the Filipino people do their research, they’ll see that the attacks that Villar is throwing out are far from the truth.”
