Rep. Alcover chides move to investigate him

By ANAD Partylist
December 24, 2011

QUEZON CITY  –  “Instead of encouraging and strengthening our country’s democratic fundamentals, some of members in the House of Representatives are now harassing me with an investigation by the House’s Ethics Committee for whatever purpose it may serve their interest,” said ANAD Rep. Jun Alcover in reaction to published news report quoting Reps. Ben Evardone of Eastern Samar, Roger Espina of Biliran, Rene Relampos of Bohol, and Cesar Sarmiento of Catanduanes saying, “ANAD partylist Rep. Pastor Alcover should be investigated by the House Ethics panel for making false accusations and irresponsible statements that has put the Lower House in a bad light.” (12/22/2011 www.tribuneonline.org)

“I cannot understand where did they get this wrong information or whoever feed this to them,” said Rep. Alcover as he stressed that not even a word, much more a phrase, can be found in ANAD’s press statement, “Posted in our website: www.anadpartylist.org dated Dec. 14, and those circulated to media personalities that would substantiate their allegation that I accused President Aquino of bribing lawmakers in exchange for their signatures for the impeachment complaint against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.” (read ANAD statement)

“The concerns that I raised in the press release were: a) some Congressmen who signed the impeachment complaint told me that they were told to do so and besides they can’t do anything against it with the 2012 PDAF plus the additional P1 million to our PDAF for every Congressman, dangled before them.; b) copies of the impeachment complaint were selectively distributed and only for the majority block Representatives. Surely, we in the minority were left in the dark without even a page of the complaint to read; and c) Whether this is true or not is for the majority to respond and explain to the people in the light of their own crusade for transparency in governance. I urge these Congressmen to visit and peek on our website to get their facts,” he explained quoting the ANAD press release.

“Why train their guns solely against me? Why not explain this issue to the Filipino people, instead, and investigate other members of the House who resigned from their respective positions in the House because they refused or failed to sign the impeachment complaint against CJ Corona?” he asked.

“Is there truth to the circulated rumors that indeed the mechanics to control all three branches of government is now set into motion? They cannot blame me for saying this because the ethics investigation is intended to silence the lone pro-democracy legislator in the House of Representatives,” Rep. Alcover noted.