MERGED: All about CBCP/bishop's "gifts" from PCSO/GMA

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Resign calls for Margie mount for ‘Pajero’ propaganda vs bishops

Current Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) Chief Margarita Juico is now the embattled official, and not the seven Catholic bishops tagged as the “Pajero bishops” in the media, after it was disclosed during the Senate hearing on the donation of expensive Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) were nothing approximating these, since most of the donated vehicles were service pick-ups used by the diocese in aiding the poor and the needy.

The bishops who all appeared at the Senate said they were returning the vehicles and left them parked in the Senate grounds.

Calls were made for Juico to resign her post for having falsely accused the bishops of having requested and being granted by the PCSO the “Pajeros” and expensive SUVs.

Several senators also scolded Juico, who didn’t fare well in answering questions on the issue which she tried to evade and pass on to others.

Juico, during the hearing, denied that it was she who had branded the bishops as the Pajero Bishops, even as Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada showed several newspaper and TV online news clippings quoting her as having said it.

Senators also took turns in what may be termed as a severe scolding of Juico for making it appear that the bishops had all been given expensive SUVs and Pajeros, when not one vehicle donated was a Pajero, and with other vehcles being even second hand.

Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile expressed




disappointment over the way the current PCSO officials “exposed” the issue to the public since not a single Pajero was given to the seven bishops.

“They (bishops) were unfairly accused of recieving expensive vehicles which was rather incorrect. It’s not just being careless...I’ll leave it as that that. I do not know the mind of people when they said what they said. Let’s allow it to unravel,” he said.

With the “Pajero scandal” backfiring on PCSO officials, chairman Juico, tried to straighten out the mess they created saying that tag did not come from them.

Estrada sought an answer from Juico since testimonies made by the bishops yielded no information on the supposed Pajero vehicles.

“You mean to say the present PCSO Board invented that name Pajero just to put the bishops in a bad light?” the senator asked.

“We never said Pajero. We were given these findings from the CoA (Commission on Audit) that five vehicles costing P6.9 million granted to the Catholic Church were charged to the charity fund. The name Pajero did not come from us. It came about when somebody said it was Pajero…I don’t know (who),” she said.

Estrada was prompted to cite published news reports in which she was quoted as having the name Pajero yet Juico continued to deny it.

Juico said she does not recall saying these were pajeros. “It was I think an information that was given to us by one of the managers in PCSO when they said utility vehicles were given to bishops. I think what happened there was when you mention a sports utility vehicle, you always say Pajero, It’s like saying frigidaire when what you really mean is refrigerator,” she said.

But Estrada wasn;t about to let go: “Soyou assumed when it was a sports utility vehicle, you assumed that it was already a Pajero?”

PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II then came to the rescue of Juico saying that she might have been misquoted.

Juico apologized but this apology didn’t seem to have appeased the bishops, who could not be convinced to keep the vehicles, despite the senators stating that the donations to the bishops, as recievers, were not illegal or unconstitutional.

The bishops, through Cotabato bishop Orlando Quevedo even went as far as making the bishops’ sentiment clear, intimating broadly that government-Church collaboration in assisting the needy may no longer be possible, since mistrust has set in.

Butuan Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos said it was a lapse of judgment on his part to have requested a Mitsubishi Montero Sports 2008 model as a “birthday gift” from then president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo, saying ths has “cast a shadow and uncertainty on my dignity as a bishop and my moral ascendancy as a leader of the Catholic Church,” although he stressed that the vehicle was used for the diocese work in assiting to the needy.

The pronouncements of the seven bishops, earlier alleged to have been in receipt of supposed SUVs from the Arroyo administration, read before the panel by Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, O.M.I., to return these so-called gifts to the PCSO.

They however remained form n their belief that they did not violate any law or even the Constitution.

“As our pastoral statement has said, we honestly failed to consider the pitfalls to which these grants could possibly lead,” he said, speaking on behalf of Pueblos, Bishop Rodolfo Beltran of Bontoc-Lagawe, Nueva Segovia Archbishop Ernesto Salgado, Bishop Leopoldo Jaucian of Abra, SVD; Martin Jumoad of Basilan and Archbishop Romulo Valles.

Salgado did not appear in the hearing as he was currently abroad but was represented by his auxiliary bishop David William Antonio.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), in a letter sent to the Senate last week, said Beltran actually received a secondhand 10-year-old Nissan Pathfinder pick-up; Jaucian a Mitsubishi Strada pick up; Quevedo a Toyota Grandia Hi-Ace; Jumoad also a Strada pick-up; Valles also a Hi-Ace Grandia and Salgado an Isuzu Crosswind.

Valles, clarified before the panel that he actually refused the vehicle “assigned” to be given to him by Arroyo.

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[networkguy]

The destroyer destroyed


07/14/2011

Looks like the dirty play of Noynoy and his allies has backfired on them, and especially on Noynoy, after Sen. Miriam Santiago dug up the issue of the presidential “black budget” which is the presidential social fund (PSF) that gets its billions from both the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) and without any audit.

Miriam calls this PSF fund the President’s “black budget” because it really is a presidential budget that is under the radar, or, as Miriam describes it, a budget insulated from public scrutiny, confined to the dark and insulated from sunshine, sneaked through the back door instead of undergoing the open process of congressional budgetary authorization.

It was found that the PSF, based on the 2009 Commission on Audit report, that the total deposits to the bank’s current account for the three funds were in the aggregate amount of over P7.5 billion.

Miriam threatens to hold a public hearing by August with the intent of drafting new charters for both the PCSO and Pagcor, as it has been revealed that the PCSO generates revenues from the sale of sweepstakes and lotto tickets with 55 percent of the revenues allocated to the Prize Fund; 30 percent to the Charity Fund and 15 percent to the Operating Fund.

She noted that the Charity Fund and the Operating Fund combined or 45 percent of the revenues are allocated by the PCSO Board, with the approval of the President.

As she said: giving the PCSO the power to allocate P7.603 billion a year “is feudal and contrary to best international practice” which is the one-fund concept, under which all government revenues are remitted to the treasury, and disbursed only as authorized by Congress.”

Moreover Miriam says there should no longer be a PSF, because the entire government budget is already his budget — and if one can add, the President’s entire pork barrel.

If Miriam has her way, the new law on PCSO will limit its board only to the function of regulating and supervising sweepstakes and lotto operations, with the entire budget remitted to the national treasury with only the President and Congress prioritizing the allocating of the fund, save for 5 percent of the lotto earnings that will go to local government units, and only 10 percent allocated for administrative expenses, the PCSO bureaucracy slashed, its allowances and privileges abolished, and the public relations budget removed.

The same will probably be the treatment for Pagcor.

The truth is, Aquino, who has billions in his black budget which he and his mouthpieces claim is being used for his charity and social projects in their objection to having the PCSO and the Pagcor privatized, has not even bothered to state just what social and charity projects he has funded from his black budget, if he has funded any project at all.

Thus far, we never heard of Noynoy having released from his PSF, said to be supervised by yet another Abad, for some social project or other.

He has never even bared just how much he has in his PSF budget — and he has been in office for over a year, which would have accumulated billions already in that fund. Yet he has the gall to claim that his is a transparent government and a clean and honest government.

How does the nation get to know if the funds in the PSF are not being diverted to some personal bank account, for that matter, how do we get to know just how much Noynoy allocates the funds from the PCSO and the PagCor?

It really doesn’t pay to try and destroy a previous administration — including its bishop-supporters because in the end, it is the destructive and vindictive current administration and its agencies that get destroyed in the process.


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[concern_citizen]

-Bishop Pueblo, July 13, 2011-
jinggoy: kung lumitaw si satanas sa harap mo at bigyan ka ng pera o kotse tatanggapin mo ba?
bishop peublo: posibleng tanggapin ko as long as gagamitin ko sa better cause.


-Jaime Cardinal Sin, Oct. 25, 2000-
"If Satan appears to me and gives me money, I will accept the money and spend it all for the poor. It is not the practice of the Church to ask donors where their donations come from. Our duty is to make sure all donations go to the poor. The devil remains ... my enemy but I will use his resources to feed the poor."

hahayz... same old story.. what happen man sa ila mga na kat.onan sa seminaryo oi... i have nothing against any bishop pero they are not applying what the word of god says... they are saying another things sa messa pero they are doing the opposite sa ila gi preach... no matter sa pagtabang sa pobre ug sa binut.an nga paagi nmo gigamit ang kwarta its still remains nga hugaw ang gi gikanan ana nga kwarta... kung ang drug lord makig coordinate sa simbahan ug mag feeding program sa mga pobre it wont change a thing still that money came from drugs and ruin alot of peoples lives and your feeding people nga ang kwarta nka daot sa kinabuhi sa ubang tao... hastilan...

[newsprint_kuno]

are the bishops acting like modern Robin Hood, tsk.tsk!!!!

Kaning mga Bishops ug priest sobra ra ka baga sa ilang mga nawng.. If I am not mistaken of all the professionals in this country sila ray free sa tax na pwerti rabang mahala sa ilang service like wedding, christening and etc. Is this exemptions not enough? nga kinahanglan pa jud sila mangayo.. Unsaon nalang ang mga Engineers, Architect, Lawyers, Doctor and Artist nga ga cgeg bayad ug buhis gamay lang sipyat notice dayon but this priest and bishops grabeh ka baga.. mahal kaayo ang service..

[vipvip68]

are the bishops acting like modern Robin Hood, tsk.tsk!!!!

Kaning mga Bishops ug priest sobra ra ka baga sa ilang mga nawng.. If I am not mistaken of all the professionals in this country sila ray free sa tax na pwerti rabang mahala sa ilang service like wedding, christening and etc. Is this exemptions not enough? nga kinahanglan pa jud sila mangayo.. Unsaon nalang ang mga Engineers, Architect, Lawyers, Doctor and Artist nga ga cgeg bayad ug buhis gamay lang sipyat notice dayon but this priest and bishops grabeh ka baga.. mahal kaayo ang service..

Priests are just glorified beggars. They just leech on other people who are trying to make a living.

[dmcebu01]

WAAAAAAA si Margie nay sad an!!!

No matter what are the names of the cars those are Payment for support and BRIBE from GMA administration and it is immoral, unlawful, unconstitutional.

We the people will forgive but you BISHOPS should resign!! NOW!!

The BISHOPS has no more credibility nd reputations, they should be forgiven and resign............

[vipvip68]

WAAAAAAA si Margie nay sad an!!!

No matter what are the names of the cars those are Payment for support and BRIBE from GMA administration and it is immoral, unlawful, unconstitutional.

We the people will forgive but you BISHOPS should resign!! NOW!!

The BISHOPS has no more credibility nd reputations, they should be forgiven and resign............

Obviosuly nag sipsip nasad ning mga senator sa obispo because they know what power these people weild especially during election time.

Morally wrong gyud ning mga bishops bisag bali balihon pa ang istorya...

Ni sorry si Juico for the Pajero moniker when it shouldve been montero etc... Unya they call for her resignation na dayon..... How come enough na ang pag sorry sa mga bishops tungod sa ilang moral missteps in receiving and actually Asking for these vehicles from PCSO? They should be the one to resign.

[junmar4]

Sa tanan panghitabo, ang ulo nagngisi ra... ang girequestan.

Then naa pud mga oportunista nga membro sa senado. Wa jud tawn mapili, mapa membro sa simbahan ug bisan sa gobyerno man.

[GemWArrioR]

as per jinggoy's question to bishop pueblo

jinggoy: kung lumitaw si satanas sa harap mo at bigyan ka ng pera o kotse tatanggapin mo ba?
bishop peublo: posibleng tanggapin ko as long as gagamitin ko sa better cause.

WTF!! WTH!! asa nman tawn iya na kat.onan sa bibliya oi.. suma pa sa bibliya nga dili ta mo dwell sa presence sa demonyo...nya mo dawat na nun sa gihatag sa demonyo... na unsa nman tawn na xa oi... ang ginoo gani wla man gani ni dawat sa gi offer sa satanas kato naa xa sa wilderness si bishop pueblo na non.. hangawa ani nya oi. hahahahaha...

ok ra mo dawat ug kwarta gikan sa daotan basta gamiton pra mka tabang sa pobre? naunsa mani xa abi cguro nya cya si robin hood. hahahahahaha... pastilan nlng jd!!! kiat lng ang agi!!

ang ibig sabihin ni pueblo, kay pwede di ay ta maghold-up at magpatay ng tao basta ang pera na makuwa ay gamitin sa mbuting gawain?
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[miyay]

actually, juico was right. the mitsubishi pajero was renamed to montero in spanish speaking countries coz pajero is for them an offensive term

MITSUBISHI MOTORS PAJERO/MONTERO TOP
Mitsubishi Pajero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia