PRESIDENTIAL Spokesman Ernesto Abella must love the word “fantasize.” Fantasizing is creating fiction and amounts to lying.
When Manila Times columnist Francisco Tatad wrote that President Rodrigo Duterte had a mild stroke, which would explain the President’s disappearance from public sight and hearing for five straight days, from June 12 to 16, Abella said that Tatad was fantasizing.
In laughing off the claim of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV that a “Philippine Death Squad” composed of active police was organized to carry out the extrajudicial killings of the Duterte administration -- with Supt. Marvin Marcos and his men as the core group (the alleged killers of ex-Albuera mayor Rolando Espinosa Jr.) -- Abella said that Trillanes “seems to be really giving it to his huge fantasies.”
P.S. Trillanes doesn’t think Duterte is about to keel over: “Masamang damo don’t die easily.”
Kapatid network
Ed Lingao, on one side, and the brothers Ben and Erwin Tulfo on the other are trading potshots. They all belong to TV5, the Kapatid Network.
They aren’t being brotherly to one another but then, don’t brothers quarrel? Maybe not in public but they’re all broadcasters working for the same company. The alleged tanga, sipsip: Ben Tulfo. The alleged “bulol:” Lingao.
P5.2B in BPI glitch
A BPI official told the House’s committee on banks that as much as P46 million was “accidentally” withdrawn by clients from the bank during its system glitch that caused wrong postings on accounts. Most of it has been paid back, BPI CEO Cezar Consing said.
All told, he said, 750,000 depositors multiplied by P7,000 (average misposting on both debit and credit), “we’re talking of P5.2 billion either way.”
That’s how much money was involved in the mess or, more accurately, what the bank would like to tell the public.
With a “reconciliation process,” going on or completed, “we guarantee...that no moneys were lost.” Cross your fingers.
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