Atty. Luke Espiritu
October 2, 2007
Much has already been disclosed and discussed about the ZTE scandal that there is nothing more to state. What other talk is there to add? The facts are clear. The contract is grossly disadvantageous to the government. The December 2006 ZTE proposal covers only 30% of the project in the entire country. Out of the contract price of US$229,481,280 million, over US$130 million will line the pockets of certain government officials as kickbacks. Worse, the money will be sourced from foreign loans that will be shouldered by generations of poor Filipinos.
In contrast, Jose De Venecia III (JDV3) has sworn to the fact that his company, Amsterdam Holdings Inc. (AHI), offers US$ 240 million to cover 80% of the country. Moreover, AHI’s proposal is without cost to the government since the national broadband project will be undertaken under a build-operate-transfer scheme. Yet, it was the ZTE contract that was approved and signed.
I am not a fan of JDV3, much less of his father. However, the implication of his revelation is clear. We are once again being bled dry by rapacious officials who have no qualms in mortgaging the country’s future for their own private ends. The story is all too familiar like Baba Black Sheep and Jack and Jill are to kindergarten kids. Indeed, what more can be said? Res ipsa loquitor (The thing speaks for itself)!
All talk is inconsequential. It is the time to RAGE.
If our fathers and brothers are murdered or our mothers and sisters ravished right before our very eyes, is it not that we are rendered speechless? Instead we tear our clothes, beat our chests and pull our hair in righteous indignation. Our eyes and the veins can burst with the bloody spasms of utter fury.
So, all I can say to those who have sold the country into debt slavery is this: woe to you and to your children who partake of your plunder and bask in your infamy. May your bodies rot and your lives read like a curse. May the God of history’s upheavals catch you in your sleep and slay you in your beds. May this generation, or the next, behold your heads on a pike!
October 2, 2007
Much has already been disclosed and discussed about the ZTE scandal that there is nothing more to state. What other talk is there to add? The facts are clear. The contract is grossly disadvantageous to the government. The December 2006 ZTE proposal covers only 30% of the project in the entire country. Out of the contract price of US$229,481,280 million, over US$130 million will line the pockets of certain government officials as kickbacks. Worse, the money will be sourced from foreign loans that will be shouldered by generations of poor Filipinos.
In contrast, Jose De Venecia III (JDV3) has sworn to the fact that his company, Amsterdam Holdings Inc. (AHI), offers US$ 240 million to cover 80% of the country. Moreover, AHI’s proposal is without cost to the government since the national broadband project will be undertaken under a build-operate-transfer scheme. Yet, it was the ZTE contract that was approved and signed.
I am not a fan of JDV3, much less of his father. However, the implication of his revelation is clear. We are once again being bled dry by rapacious officials who have no qualms in mortgaging the country’s future for their own private ends. The story is all too familiar like Baba Black Sheep and Jack and Jill are to kindergarten kids. Indeed, what more can be said? Res ipsa loquitor (The thing speaks for itself)!
All talk is inconsequential. It is the time to RAGE.
If our fathers and brothers are murdered or our mothers and sisters ravished right before our very eyes, is it not that we are rendered speechless? Instead we tear our clothes, beat our chests and pull our hair in righteous indignation. Our eyes and the veins can burst with the bloody spasms of utter fury.
So, all I can say to those who have sold the country into debt slavery is this: woe to you and to your children who partake of your plunder and bask in your infamy. May your bodies rot and your lives read like a curse. May the God of history’s upheavals catch you in your sleep and slay you in your beds. May this generation, or the next, behold your heads on a pike!
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