{"id":11562,"date":"2014-05-22T22:43:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11562"},"modified":"2014-05-22T23:54:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:54:30","slug":"lacson-defends-himself-from-romualdezs-unfair-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/22\/lacson-defends-himself-from-romualdezs-unfair-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacson defends himself from Romualdez\u2019s  &#8216;unfair indictment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3081\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/532px-Sen._Panfilo_M._Lacson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3081 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/532px-Sen._Panfilo_M._Lacson-e1400769811401.jpg\" alt=\"Rehabilitation Czar Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.\" width=\"531\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/532px-Sen._Panfilo_M._Lacson-e1400769811401.jpg 531w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/532px-Sen._Panfilo_M._Lacson-e1400769811401-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rehabilitation Czar Panfilo &#8216;Ping&#8217; Lacson. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After being criticized for \u201cincompetence\u201d which derailed the rehabilitation efforts\u00a0after Yolanda, Rehabilitation Secretary Panfilo Lacson hits Tacloban Mayor Alfred\u00a0Romualdez for his \u201cunfair indictment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Mayor Romualdez is telling you that there is incompetence in the national\u00a0government agencies, well I think that&#8217;s an unfair indictment of the national government\u00a0agencies,\u201d Lacson said in an interview for Rappler.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson was also criticized for being more focused on the pork barrel scam than on the\u00a0rehabilitation of Yolanda survivors, a task personally designated to him by the President\u00a0as the rehabilitation czar.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson however defended himself saying that the \u201cNapolist,\u201d \u2013 the list involving several\u00a0members of Aquino administration and other officials in the pork scam \u2013 has not been\u00a0an obstacle in his functions as the rehabilitation secretary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t lose focus,\u201d Lacson said. \u201cI just got distracted a bit,\u201d Lacson said explaining\u00a0that he forgotten that he had a copy of the list which started the whole idea of his critics\u00a0saying that he totally got distracted with the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blame it on the media, critics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lacson also said that it was not him but the media who are deeply drowned into the\u00a0\u201cNapolist,\u201d a comment also noted by the President.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the media, Lacson also blames critics and activist groups for failing to get\u00a0over with the issues raised against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings are moving,\u201d Lacson added, but the government is \u201cbeing drowned by the\u00a0propaganda line\u201d of critics referring to activists groups including a group of protesters\u00a0allegedly created by the Romualdezes to an anti-government rally in February.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from, Paterno Esmaquel II<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being criticized for \u201cincompetence\u201d which derailed the rehabilitation efforts\u00a0after Yolanda, Rehabilitation Secretary Panfilo Lacson hits Tacloban Mayor Alfred\u00a0Romualdez for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[2991,3879,3880],"class_list":["post-11562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-ping-lacson","tag-romualdez","tag-unfair-indictment","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}