For five minutes Formoso kept saying he either didn’t know such basic figures or would just submit them in future dates. Whereupon I showed the senators a hard copy of Formoso’s PowerPoint presentation of June 20 at an Ateneo-Makati forum, and it said 23,000 barangays — or only half the country. Worst of all, Mendoza, Teves and Formoso admitted having met on at least four occasions with ZTE execs and discussing the NBN in front of Abalos — in the latter’s Comelec office or Wack Wack golf turf. Yet they quickly and incredibly claimed too that the election bigwig was never part of the deal. So now Malacañang factotums want the Senate to stop its hearings. They insist that the Supreme Court after all is already studying the legality of the contract.
Ipagdasal nating umandar ding mabilis ang mga kaso sa korte. Kasi, hinabla ni Padilla ng graft sina Mendoza at DOTC Asecs. Elmer Soneja at Lorenzo Formoso at tat long ZTE execs sa paglabag sa apat na batas: Build-Operate-Transfer Law, Procurement Reform Act, Tele coms Policy Act, at Omnibus Election Code. Si Iloilo vice governor Rolex Suplico naman, pinahihinto sa Korte Suprema ang national broadband network contract ng ZTE hangga’t hindi ito naibubunyag na nirerepaso ng mga eksperto.