{"id":30496,"date":"2014-11-04T21:35:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30496"},"modified":"2025-01-30T04:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:39:40","slug":"p-noy-to-binay-youre-free-to-leave-binay-to-p-noy-im-a-team-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/04\/p-noy-to-binay-youre-free-to-leave-binay-to-p-noy-im-a-team-player\/","title":{"rendered":"P-Noy to Binay: \u2018You\u2019re free to leave\u2019; Binay to P-Noy: \u2018I\u2019m a team player\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VP Jejomar Binay (left) and President Benigno Aquino III (Photo by Dondi Tawatao)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Benigno Aquino minced no words in his message to beleaguered Vice president Jejomar Binay.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters on Monday after the inaugural of the $95-million plant expansion project of Coca-Cola Femsa Philippines in the City of Calamba, President Aquino stated clearly that Binay is \u201cfree to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he thinks we are going in the wrong direction, he\u2019s free to leave,\u201d Aquino said, flat out.<\/p>\n

Binay \u2013 who since August 20 has been under investigation on allegations of corruption \u2013 has not resigned from the Cabinet, although he has been very vocal about his criticism of the administration, and of Aquino\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n

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Aquino admonished Binay, who belongs to the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) political party, that as the country\u2019s second-in-command, and a member of the Cabinet, it was his \u201cobligation\u201d to give the President input as to \u201chow to improve the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust to be clear, if he had solutions, I don\u2019t think I heard them during Cabinet meetings, he should have shared them. Of course, the question is why didn\u2019t he,\u201d Aquino stated.<\/p>\n

Aquino clarified, however, that as far as trust is concerned, the vice president is entitled to a \u201cpresumption of innocence until proven guilty.\u201d He likewise pointed out that the charges against Binay were based on circumstances that \u201chappened before\u201d he was voted into the vice presidency.<\/p>\n

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The President also spoke highly of Binay\u2019s \u201cachievements of the housing sector [on] his watch;\u201d referring to the latter\u2019s capacity as chief of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council.<\/p>\n

Aquino also pointed out that the administration should be accorded \u201ccredit\u201d for investigating high-ranking government officials such as Binay.<\/p>\n

For his part, Binay made a brief statement on Monday, in which he affirmed that he will continue to be \u201ca team player.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the highest respect for President Aquino and I will continue to be a team player,\u201d Binay said.<\/p>\n

Binay\u2019s official spokesman for matters of politics, Cavite Gov. Jonvic Remulla, said the Vice President harbored \u201cno hard feelings\u201d toward Aquino.<\/p>\n

Remulla added that Binay did not criticize President Aquino, but merely pointed out \u201cdeficiencies\u201d which he thinks need to be worked on.<\/p>\n

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The spokesman also noted that Binay was willing to give his two-cents\u2019 to the President if called upon to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just doesn\u2019t want to preempt the President,\u201d Remulla stated.<\/p>\n

Binay, who served as Makati City mayor for three terms before being voted into the vice presidency, has been accused by former Makati City officials \u2013 primarily, Former Makati Vice Mayor Ernesto Mercado \u2013 of corruption. Initial allegations include the gross overpricing of city projects and buildings, and the receipt of kickbacks from multi-million infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n

The allegations are now under investigation by a Senate blue ribbon subcommittee headed by Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III. The weightiest of the charges against Binay are the purported overpricing of the Makati City Hall Building II and the alleged cut of 13-percent Binay receives of the cost of all development projects in Makati City for the release of mayor\u2019s permits.<\/p>\n

A plunder complaint has also been filed with the Ombudsman\u2019s office by the ex-city officials against Binay and his son, Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay.<\/p>\n

Since the investigations began, the charges have grown to include alleged ownership, through dummy-owners, of an 8,877-square-meter real estate property in Comembo village, Makati, and a 350-hectare agricultural farm in Rosario town, Batangas province, as part of Binay\u2019s purported ill-gotten wealth.<\/p>\n

Binay \u2013 who has categorically denied all allegations \u2013 refuses to face the Senate to address the charges against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Benigno Aquino minced no words in his message to beleaguered Vice president Jejomar Binay. Speaking to reporters on Monday …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[8159,7874,1026,5533,8481,3775,8474,4608],"class_list":["post-30496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-batangas-property","tag-corruption-charges","tag-jejomar-binay","tag-overpricing","tag-p-noy","tag-pres-aquino","tag-senate-investigation","tag-vp-binay","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30496","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=30496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286964,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30496\/revisions\/286964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}