PRESS RELEASE
June 12, 2009
Davao City – Bayan commemorated the 111 years of Philippine Independence denouncing the highest form of treachery committed by House Speaker Prospero “Boy” Nograles and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo against the nation and the Filipino people saying “the Filipino people of today and the future generations will recall Nograles as among the traitors who vended our country for his personal benefits and perpetuation of his political interests. Nograles should remember that among the lives he is destroying is the life of his own family.”
“Nograles deserves all the humiliations he is getting now for initiating charter change and for representing Arroyo’s political interests and foreign dictates over the Filipino people’s rights and welfare,” Bayan-SMR spokesperson John Birondo said.
Nograles led the passage of House Resolution 1109 seeking congress to convene to initiate charter amendments even without the participation of the Senate. He is also the author of House Resolution 737 which lifts restrictions to foreign ownership of land and corporations.
“We will not stop airing our dissents in any form and place we can slap to Nograles’ face his mistakes. Not until he steps up and starts himself the move to junk Cha-cha, he will forever be haunted by the people’s mockery and his own conscience,” Birondo added.
“What he’s doing is a clear sellout of our national sovereignty and patrimony. He said he wants the people to respect his privacy but we tell him he should respect the dignity of the Filipino people,” Birondo said.
In yesterday’s picket rally, members of the progressive groups stormed the house of Nograles in Davao City. “The protest yesterday manifested the people’s wrath over his treachery to the nation. We warn Nograles that the people will never be tired of protesting against his being the staunchest lapdog of Gloria Arroyo,” Birondo said.
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