{"id":39345,"date":"2015-01-21T19:45:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39345"},"modified":"2015-01-21T19:45:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:45:38","slug":"senate-junks-binays-request-to-see-questions-prior-to-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/21\/senate-junks-binays-request-to-see-questions-prior-to-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate junks Binay\u2019s request to see questions prior to hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37871\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jojo-jejomar-binay-e1420744703676.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37871\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jojo-jejomar-binay-e1420744703676-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Jejomar 'Jojo' Binay (Facebook photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jojo-jejomar-binay-e1420744703676-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jojo-jejomar-binay-e1420744703676.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Jejomar Binay (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Chair of the Senate Blue Ribbon Subcommittee Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III on Wednesday said that he rejected the request of Makati City officials who are asking to get the list of possible questions that will be asked to them during the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he sees no reason for the committee to provide the questions to the city officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not aware of any right of a resource person, witness, or even a suspect in a hearing for accountability, which will give them the right to ask for advance questions, and if they\u2019re not given, refuse to appear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The panel will look into the allegations about the supposed overpricing of Makati City Hall Building II and Makati Science Building.<\/p>\n<p>Based on testimonies, Vice President Jejomar Binay apparently got kickbacks from the said projects when he was still the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Binay\u2019s camp were quick to deny the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The subcommittee endorsed that the Vice President\u2019s son Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin \u201cJunjun\u201d Binay Jr. and six other officials be cited for contempt for failure after not being able to attend the previous hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel submitted the recommendation to the blue ribbon committee headed by Sen. Teofisto Guingona III.<\/p>\n<p>The blue ribbon committee will talk about Pimentel\u2019s recommendation during their meeting on Jan. 26. Guingona already sent the letter to all the members regarding the scheduled meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Chair of the Senate Blue Ribbon Subcommittee Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III on Wednesday said that he rejected the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":37871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39345","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=39345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}