{"id":30474,"date":"2014-11-04T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30474"},"modified":"2014-11-04T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T10:07:41","slug":"drilon-i-have-nothing-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/04\/drilon-i-have-nothing-hide\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilon: \u2018I have nothing hide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8969\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/franklin-drilon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8969\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/franklin-drilon-300x300.png\" alt=\"Senate President Franklin Drilon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/franklin-drilon-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/franklin-drilon-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/franklin-drilon-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/franklin-drilon.png 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate President Franklin Drilon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; \u201cI have nothing to hide,\u201d Senate President Franklin Drilon yesterday said welcoming the investigation by his colleagues over his alleged involvement in the overpriced Iloilo Convention Center (ICC).<\/p>\n<p>Drilon also said that though the project was funded under his pork barrel, he had no participation in the processes involved in its implementation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DPWH, which supervised the ICC, can easily disprove the malicious allegations made against the implementation of the project. I have no involvement in any way in the bidding process for the project. I was nowhere near that process to intervene, let alone nominate anyone to be the contractor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also denied allegations saying he is \u201ctotally baseless and ridiculous\u201d and that the person behind the accusations was a disgruntled former employee.<\/p>\n<p>On earlier reports, Manuel Mejorada, Drilon\u2019s former consultant accused Drilon of plunder in relation to the ICC project.<\/p>\n<p>Mejorada has also filed similar cases against him in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Drilon, however, dismissed the allegations adding that he fired Mejorada for lashing out against his political enemies using his social media account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have nothing to hide. Any inquiry or investigation will validate the facts and figures of this project, and will just show how absurd these vile allegations really are,\u201d Drilon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; \u201cI have nothing to hide,\u201d Senate President Franklin Drilon yesterday said welcoming the investigation by his colleagues over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4772],"class_list":["post-30474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-drilon","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30474","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=30474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}