Gloria Arroyo aware of corruption in NBN -ZTE deal before signing

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Gloria Arroyo Confessed Her Crime
Whoever made Gloria Arroyo’s new alibi script is dumb idiot. It seems that she wants to tell the Filipino people ‘another lapse of judgment’. Gloria committed a heinous crime. She did nothing to stop the anomalous deal. The bitch is lying big time.

Did Gloria Arroyo inform her Cabinet men about the irregularities in the ZTE deal before they went to China? Who are involved? What are the specific misdeals? Did she order an official investigation upon learning the alleged irregularities? There are more questions than answers. Why only now?

GMA aware of corruption in NBN deal before signing

By Sherwin C. Olaes
02/24/2008
President Arroyo yesterday admitted she was aware of the purported corruption in the ZTE-National Broadband Network (NBN) deal that the government forged with the Chinese firm in April last year.
The Chief Executive, during a radio interview over dzRH, however, stressed that she was only informed of the irregularities in the broadband project the night before signing the supply contract.
“I was told about corruption the night before the signing of the supply contract. How could we cancel it the night before the signing,
given that another country was involved in this contract?” she said.
Mrs. Arroyo added she pushed through with the contract because of the compromise with China, whose government-to-government business relationships could have been affected.
The President witnessed the signing of five contracts between the Philippines’ Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza, Education Secretary Jesli Lapus, Trade Secretary Peter Favila and China’s ZTE, Tsinghua Tongfang and other Chinese contractors last April 21, 2007.
It was Mendoza and ZTE president Yu Yong who signed the NBN contract that was witnessed by Mrs. Arroyo.
The Philippine government’s copies of the contract, which were reportedly stolen, had been reconstituted. Daily Tribune