Abad blasts ‘cowardly’ detractors

BUDGET Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad on Tuesday dismissed the motion filed by a lawyer to include him as respondent in the pork barrel case as “empty” and called his detractors “cowards” for hiding behind a weak case meant only to discredit him.

“I suspect he’s just fronting for certain people who are too cowardly to come out in the open,” Abad said in reaction to lawyer Bonifacio Alentajan’s filing on Monday of a petition asking the Sandiganbayan to order prosecutors as well as the Office of the Ombudsman to amend the charge sheet and implead Abad as principal accused.