{"id":181268,"date":"2018-09-12T21:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T01:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=181268"},"modified":"2018-09-12T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T01:37:15","slug":"go-excited-face-trillanes-2nd-time-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/12\/go-excited-face-trillanes-2nd-time-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Go \u2018excited\u2019 to face Trillanes for 2nd time at Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last January, Go and Trillanes faced each other for the first time during a Senate hearing into the latter\u2019s intervening in the PHP18-billion Frigate Acquisition Project of the Philippine Navy. (File Photo<\/a>: Bong Go\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence \u201cBong\u201d Go on Wednesday said he is \u201cvery excited\u201d to face Senator Antonio \u201cSonny\u201d Trillanes IV for a second time in a Senate probe into his relatives\u2019 alleged multi-billion peso deals with the government.<\/p>\n

Trillanes earlier said he would propose a Senate probe into the supposed involvement of Go in the multi-billion pesos worth of projects awarded to CLTG Builders and Alfrego Builders and Supply.<\/p>\n

CLTG is owned by Go’s father, Deciderio, while Alfrego is owned by his brother, Alfredo.<\/p>\n

Last January, Go and Trillanes faced each other for the first time during a Senate hearing into the latter\u2019s intervening in the PHP18-billion Frigate Acquisition Project of the Philippine Navy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m very excited for another Senate face-off with Mr. Trillanes.\u00a0Bilisan na n’ya gaya nang sinabi ko sana bukas na o ngayon kasi baka magtago na siya<\/em>\u00a0(He should hurry, like I said, he can have it tomorrow or even now because he might go into hiding),\u201d Go said in an interview with reporters.<\/p>\n

Trillanes is now under Senate custody after Duterte voided his amnesty granted by the previous administration.<\/p>\n

Go defended his relatives\u2019 deals, noting that figures were \u201cbloated\u201d and that he was being \u201csingled out\u201d when there were other joint ventures the senator could have looked into.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy single me out?\u00a0Ba\u2019t hindi nyo tingnan ‘yung ibang meron mga nakaraang<\/em>\u00a0joint ventures\u00a0na kontrata<\/em>\u00a0(Why don\u2019t you look into other joint ventures)?,\u201d Go said.<\/p>\n

He said his relatives\u2019 businesses were established even before he was born.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi pa po ako pinapanganak, wala pa, wala pa ako sa mundong ito nangdidyan na po sila sa negosyong ‘yan<\/em>\u00a0(I wasn\u2019t even born yet, I wasn\u2019t in this world yet, that business has already been established),\u201d Go said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAng importante po, nakialam ba ko, kasama ba ako,<\/em>\u00a0involved\u00a0ba ako, nandun ba ang pangalan ko<\/em>\u00a0(What\u2019s important to know is if I intervened, if I\u2019m involved, if my name is there),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Go said the two firms had no projects with the Davao city hall when he became aide of then mayor Duterte.<\/p>\n

He added that his father and half-brother were simply \u201cexercising their rights\u201d when they joined the bidding of projects by the Department of Public Works and Highway, either as sole contractor or as partner, which did not disqualify them from bidding.<\/p>\n

Go, meanwhile, reiterated his vow to resign if his influence or involvement in his relatives\u2019 projects is proven and asked Trillanes to do the same if he failed to prove it.<\/p>\n

\u201c’Pag na<\/em>-prove\u00a0niya na<\/em>\u00a0(If he proved) in any form, any amount of corruption, I will resign.\u00a0Pero pag hindi niya po na<\/em>-prove,\u00a0siya naman po ang mag<\/em>-resign (but if he failed to prove it, he should resign),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence \u201cBong\u201d Go on Wednesday said he is \u201cvery excited\u201d to face Senator …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":181269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181268","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=181268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}