Former president Benigno Aquino III said he hopes that Congress, now under his predecessor Speaker Gloria Arroyo, will not resort to the speedy passage of the proposed Charter change (Cha-cha) despite having only limited time until the end of the 17th Congress.
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The case filed against former president Benigno S. Aquino III over the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) was a mere “consuelo de bobo indictment,” President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief lawyer said on Friday.
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Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday said the Office of the Ombudsman should have indicted former President Benigno Aquino III and former Budget Secretary Butch Abad for more serious charges such as malversation, graft, and corruption.
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The specter of suffering the same fate as detained Sen. Leila de Lima is not lost on former President Benigno Aquino III as he urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday to junk the criminal complaint brought against him by President Rodrigo Duterte’s rabid supporters over the P3.5-billion Dengvaxia mess.
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