PRESIDENTIAL Adviser on Poverty Alleviation Larry Gadon has laughed off Sen. Ronald ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa’s claim that he felt betrayed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for breaking a promise that his administration wouldn’t cooperate with the International Criminal Court.
“He (dela Rosa) is really a ’bobo’ (fool, stupid) person. He appears to have no idea as to the concept and meaning of the word betrayal.”
The anti-poverty presidential adviser said that the President would never commit any betrayal on the senator because he is not his (Marcos) friend in the first place.
” One can only be betrayed by a friend or an ally,” Gadon stressed.
Newspaper reports quoted Dela Rosa as saying that he’s promised by Marcos sometime in Malacañang that the latter wouldn’t cooperate with the ICC.
If indeed ‘Bato’ is a Marcos ally, he shouldn’t have initiated a Senate investigation using ‘fabricated reports from a PDEA agent’ against the Chief Executive.
” So where is the betrayal here? He has been accusing the President of being a drug user and now he’s saying he felt betrayed, you (Bato) are ridiculous!” Gadon said.
Gadon also clarified that the ICC case was filed in 2017 at the time Marcos was still not in power.
More pumping stations in Navotas
FLOODING has virtually become a ‘thing of the past’ in Navotas because of several pumping stations the local government has been continuously establishing in strategic areas in the coastal city.
Now at 87 pumping stations, the city government said the latest three facilities were newly operated in the villages of Tanza, Silas-Almacen and Bagumbayan South.
Mayor John Rey Tiangco and brother, Rep. Toby Tiangco, who’ve been both credited for putting up several pumping stations over the years, led other key city officials in inaugurating the new anti-flood structures.
“We’ve been establishing pumping stations strategically across the city because we’ve found out that these have been effective in largely minimizing flooding especially in our low-lying communities,” the Tiangco brothers said.
They stressed that the local government has been “building not just structures but stronger foundations for a safer and more progressive Navotas.”
