By Prince Golez
Malacanang said “incompentence and trust issues” were prevalent among the prominent members of the Aquino Cabinet.
Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement after Senator Francis Pangilinan regarded as “diversionary tactic” the remarks of President Rodrigo Duterte blaming former Interior secretary Mar Roxas for the death of the 44 Special Action Force commandos during the Mamasapano incident in 2015.
Panelo called Pangilinan’s claim “noxious nonsense,” noting that the achievements of the present government have surpassed that of then President Benigno Aquino III’s.
“Previous administrations likewise pale in comparison with (Duterte’s) war on drugs, on criminality, on corruption, and on terrorism as well as his Build Build Build infrastructure program,” the chief presidential legal counsel said.
According to him, this administration achieved “many firsts” in its almost three years of governance owing to Duterte’s strong political will and decisive leadership.
These include free tuition in state colleges and universities, free irrigation for farmers, universal health care for all Filipinos, free medicine for indigent Filipinos and institutionalized free school feeding program for public school children, collection of billions of taxes from errant billionaire businessmen, salary increases of police and military personnel and teachers, firing of an array of top government officials either allied to him or closely identified with him, the passage of ease in doing business law, the issuance of an executive order on freedom of information, the establishment of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Mindanao, the veto of the unconscionable P95.3-billion pork barrel, and the crushing of the Marawi rebellion, among others.
“Res ipsa loquitur. The records speak for themselves. The achievements of this administration are inescapable to the Filipino masses resulting in stratospheric public satisfaction, approval and trust in favor of President Duterte and his administration,” Panelo said.
He added that Pangilinan, just like the President’s other ardent critics and detractors, was “deaf and blind to the unprecedented survey numbers of the President.”
“It is about time he and others in the opposition wake up from their self-destructive illusion lest they are swept away to oblivion by the horses of change galloping in the country,” the spokesman said.
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