{"id":44590,"date":"2015-03-12T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T03:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44590"},"modified":"2015-03-19T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:01:38","slug":"walden-bello-i-can-no-longer-support-this-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/12\/walden-bello-i-can-no-longer-support-this-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Walden Bello: ‘I can no longer support this President’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANILA — Akbayan party-list Rep. Walden Bello has cut his ties with\u00a0Malaca\u00f1ang over the continuous “cover-up” of the Mamasapano incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can no longer support this President. He can go ahead and scratch me off the list of his allies, as his spokesperson Abigail Valte has already implied,” Akbayan party-list Rep. Walden Bello said, as quoted in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report.<\/p>\n

Bello resigned from the administration coalition following the President’s statement saying that he was made a fool by fired Special Action Force (SAF) Director Getulio\u00a0Nape\u00f1as.<\/p>\n

\u201cMamasapano is a deadly acid eating at the presidency. Now, the President is engaging in a brazen cover-up of his responsibility and that of his trusted aide Purisima for the tragic SAF mission and placing all blame on the ground commander Nape\u00f1as,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the latest development in the shrinking of the man from a credible President to a small-minded bureaucrat trying to erase his fingerprints from a disastrous project,\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n

In an audience of evangelical church leaders led by Jesus is Lord Church head Bro. Eddie Villanueva, Aquino said that\u00a0Nape\u00f1as had failed to coordinate with the military.<\/p>\n

He added that the director also refused to abort \u00a0the mission despite the increasing risks.<\/p>\n

Aquino also said that Nape\u00f1as gave him conflicting reports on the mission.<\/p>\n

The operation which killed 44 members of SAF was launched to get\u00a0Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir, alias \u201cMarwan,\u201d and his Filipino deputy, Basit Usman.<\/p>\n

Bello, meanwhile, said that he will remain a member of the Akbayan party-list group in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am remaining with Akbayan as a party. Whether I will remain a representative of the party in Congress will depend on my discussion with the party leadership,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I feel that I cannot continue to remain the congressional representative of the party if our positions on the administration are diametrically opposed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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