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MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang on Wednesday, March 5, questioned the relevance of the lifestyle check challenge posed by Senator Ramon Revilla Jr to President Benigno Aquino III and his Cabinet officials.
Responding to Revilla’s challenge, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a news briefing that the senator, who is facing plunder raps for alleged misuse of his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), should just “hammer out” his response to the issues against him.
“Ang maganda siguro, pandayin niya mabuti ang issue niya. Huwag na siya mandamay,” he said, making a pun on Revilla’s 2009 film, Ang Panday (The Blacksmith). (It would be better if he would hammer out well the issues against him. He shouldn’t involve others.)
Lacierda added: “Stick to the case, answer the issues against him, and that’s it. A lifestyle check on other members who are not part of the case will not make him more credible or less credible. It’s irrelevant to the issues against him.”
Revilla had earlier said he would submit himself to a lifestyle check, a challenge made by potential whistleblower Dennis Cunanan to senators implicated in the pork barrel scam, but the President and his entire Cabinet should do the same. – Rappler.com
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