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Friday, May 27, 2005
My brother is not hiding: congressman
"MY BROTHER is not hiding."
This was the declaration of Representative Ignacio "Iggy" Arroyo, Jr. of the 5th District of Negros Occidental on insinuations that his elder brother First Gentleman (FG) Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo is out of the country to hide from the "jueteng" issue that hounded the First Family.
"He (Mike) is now in Korea," disclosed the solon.
On reports that FG Arroyo flew to Singapore Friday last week to evade jueteng exposes, the younger Arroyo said, "They're getting old now and they deserve a vacation even abroad. Pity the First Gentleman if he will stay only at home and wait to be interviewed."
He's not hiding actually. And, He's nothing to hide, said the congressman, adding that ever since, their lives have been an open book.
The Arroyos are from Hacienda Manoleta in Binalbagan town. Iggy jokingly said that his elder brother was tagged as the "lightning rod" of the President.
But on the question that President Macapagal-Arroyo is now doubling her time doing damage control, the solon said: "Not basically damage control."
He said it's only quite unfortunate that despite everything the President is doing for the good of the country's economy, there are some quarters who want to pull her down.
"But we have no choice. We need to live on that. But as I stressed our life has been an open book and we're not afraid of any investigation."
He said the jueteng expos‚ authored by Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson was just a masterpiece of the senator's grandstanding in preparation for his bid for mayoralty post in Manila in the 2007 election.
"It's for destabilization and destruction," Rep. Arroyo described Lacson's move.
As to Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz' pronouncement clearing the Arroyos from jueteng scandal, the solon said, "It's still unpredictable whether or not the probe on the matter will continue." (EASD)
(May 27, 2005 issue)
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