AMONG the achievements of his administration President Benigno Aquino 3rd is likely to flaunt in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) today is the hastily assembled tax evasion cases filed against former chief justice Renato Corona and the questionable dismissal of chief special prosecutor Wendell Barreras-Sulit.

Sulit, the lead trial lawyer in the Office of the Ombudsman, was administratively charged in connection with the plea-bargaining agreement of former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) comptroller Carlos Garcia with the Sandiganbayan Second Division. Sulit was relieved on Friday.

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