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Militants on round-the-clock guard against possible new appointees this holiday season
GMA asked: “ What is so special about 2 new presidential appointees?”

Leftwing activists belonging to Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Christmas eve asked President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo what was so special about Napoleon Morales and Arthur Yap that made her decide to keep these officials and re-appoint as deputy customs commissioner and presidential adviser on job creation respectively.

“ It seems to us that the Macapagal-Arroyo ruling syndicate in Malacañang is planning to stage another super crime of corruption or grand robbery in broad daylight by re-appointing people with checkered pasts and who figured in previous scams and scandals authored by people closed to the Macapagal-Arroyo bubble gang,” says Pamalakaya information officer Gerry Albert Corpuz in a press statement.

Corpuz said: “ What is so special about Morales and Yap? We refuse to buy Malacañang’s hard sell of the two officials that they hold exemplary records in public governance, that’s a big baloney.”

On Thursday, President Macapagal-Arroyo swore in Morales, former chief of Batangas customs, as officer in charge of Bureau of Customs replacing Alexander Arevalo, a protégé of former President Fidel Ramos, who earlier threatened to withdraw his support to the Chief Executive if she decides in favor of 2007 election postponement.

Yap’s appointment as special adviser on job creation was released on the same day, but Corpuz stressed that Morales was facing a graft charge before the Office of the Ombudsman, while former agriculture secretary Yap was implicated in the proposed use of P 8 billion coconut levy funds for an undertaking in Mindanao which has nothing to do with the improvement of the coconut industry in the country and that also resulted to the sacking of former Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) chair Evangeline Valbuena.

“ Give us a break. This government is being ruled and surrounded by people implicated in many scams, scandals and crimes of corruption. We are loosing this country to thieves. Like a thief in the night, Ms Arroyo sneaked in the appointments of Morales and Yap. This is the grandmother of all corruption,” Corpuz added.

Pamalakaya warned that President Arroyo might exploit the holiday break to appoint more people with questionable backgrounds or execute orders that would be detrimental to the interests of the Filipino people. “ She is good in that department,” the group said. However, Pamalakaya said its' activists are on the round-the-clock, 24 hour mode to expose and oppose Malacañang's new appointments and executive orders during the holiday season.

The militant group said Ms Arroyo’s appointment of Morales and Yap was not only immoral because it was done in the name of a sinister agenda which is in every mind of all the members of the Macapagal-Arroyo gangland. “ We are not born yesterday not to understand this kind of political roadshow presentation. Something bad is being pushed to accomplish something evil in the name of the ruling mafia in Malacañang,” Pamalakaya added.

Pamalakaya asked both the mainstream opposition to question the morality, political correctness and even legality of Malacañang’s appointment of Morales and Yap to the Macapagal-Arroyo cabinet, saying people with dubious past, questionable backgrounds and shady characters like First Gentleman Atty. Jose Miguel Arroyo and his associates. #

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