{"id":28993,"date":"2014-10-15T19:12:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T11:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28993"},"modified":"2014-10-15T19:24:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T11:24:52","slug":"binay-camp-launches-counter-offensive-slams-accusers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/15\/binay-camp-launches-counter-offensive-slams-accusers\/","title":{"rendered":"Binay camp launches counter-offensive; slams accusers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice President Jejomar Binay. Photo courtesy of Binay’s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA, Philippines\u2013Under a constant onslaught of accusations, allegations, and charges of corruption, the Binay camp has decided that offense is the best defense.<\/p>\n

Binay\u2019s political party, the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), has launched a counter-offensive against Binay\u2019s accusers, in a bid to defray attention from all that is being hurled against the beleaguered Vice President and former Makati Mayor, whose family has controlled the city since 1986.<\/p>\n

In what is largely considered a move to divert the public eye away from all the controversial issues surrounding the Binays, UNA interim president Toby Tiangco on Tuesday challenged Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to release a video recording in which Janet Lim-Napoles allegedly accuses Budget Secretary Florencio Abad as the brains behind the pork barrel fund scam.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy does Justice Secretary Leila de Lima refuse to release the video of her \u2018meeting\u2019 with Janet Lim-Napoles detailing how (Budget) Secretary Butch Abad coached her to set up NGOs and foundations and getting away with murder?\u201d Tiangco said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to those who prepared Napoles\u2019 affidavit, De Lima would not budge to release the video since it detailed how Napoles was able to penetrate the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and skirt the entire process through the help of \u2018contacts\u2019 inside the department,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, UNA interim secretary general Jose Virgilio \u201cJV\u201d Bautista lambasted Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV; the author of the resolution that set the ball rolling on the issue of the overpricing of the Makati City Hall Building II, and the allegations that Binay allegedly received kickabacks for building projects during his time as mayor of the city.<\/p>\n

Bautista accused Trillanes of failing to come up with a \u201cconvincing and satisfactory explanation\u201d on allegations made at the time of the latter\u2019s court-martial over ten years ago; specifically, the purchase of eight \u201cluxury vehicles\u201d on his junior officer\u2019s income, and failure to include the vehicles in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).<\/p>\n

\u201cSenator Trillanes styles himself as a moral crusader, but all these years he has evaded the issue of how he was able to afford eight luxury vehicles on his salary in the military and why he did not declare these in his SALN. This is a clear violation of the law,\u201d Bautista said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to pretend you\u2019re clean. He\u2019s been saying a lot of things against Vice President Binay but it turns out he is the one who has violated the law and has something big to hide,\u201d he accused.<\/p>\n

Binay\u2019s camp has taken to these finger-pointing tactics, even as the Vice President\u2019s popularity ratings continue to take a nose dive. The latest results of the Social Weather Stations survey show that Binay\u2019s public satisfaction rating plummeted 15 points to a net of 52 last month from 67 in June 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people are sending the message that they doubt his explanation, or lack of explanation, and are losing their trust in him,\u201d Trillanes said on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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