FORMER PRESIDENT JOSEPH ESTRADA
REACTION TO PRESIDENT AQUINO’S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS
25 July 2011 Monday
I congratulate President Noynoy Aquino on his first year as president. I believe that he is on the right path as his administration first focused on restoring faith in government.
We need to give PNoy time in restoring faith in government because of the immeasurable and insurmountable acts of corruption of the past administration. In fact the last decade can be called the Lost Decade or the Stolen Decade in Philippine history because reports are glaring na hindi lang ang pagka-pangulo ko ang ninakaw; pati ang boto ng masang Pilipino nung 2004 ninakaw, ang Fertilizer Fund ninakaw, kung hindi napigilan ng Korte Suprema pati ang Mindanao muntik nang manakaw. And it isn’t just Mrs. Arroyo who is responsible for the Stolen Decade but all those who joined in the grand conspiracy to rob the nation and suppress the will of the Filipino people.
I also congratulate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales on her appointment as Ombudsman. I hope she will be instrumental in our quest to correct history.
But while we laud President Aquino’s anti-corruption programs, I also believe that nation-building must be simultaneous with and not subsequent to eliminating corruption. So while we are eliminating corruption, we should also be empowering our citizens through nation-building. I hope that in his second year, we see more results in the fields of peace and order, food security and social services, especially education.
On our part as citizens, let us just help PNoy; let that be our way of honoring the memory of President Cory. Mag-bayanihan tayo because as Filipinos we all have a role to play in nation-building. Gaya nga ng parati kong sinasabi, walang tutulong sa Pilipino kung hindi ang kapwa Pilipino.
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