SENATE President Franklin M. Drilon (FMD) may not have committed malversation of public funds and plunder but this doesn’t necessarily mean one of his pet projects, the controversial Iloilo Convention Center (ICC), isn’t overpriced as claimed by his former consultant, lawyer Manuel Mejorada. Put in another way, the ICC may be overpriced but it would be difficult to pin any crime on FMD.

The yellow ribbon committee of the Senate started its inquiry into the ICC issue last Thursday with Mejorada admitting that he has no proof FMD, Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson and Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez benefited from the alleged P488-million overprice of the ICC construction. He has a point though when he said that somebody should have made money when the cost of the building had gone thru the roof. Who did in such a case is for a Sherlock Holmes to uncover and definitely, the yellow ribbon chair, Sen. TG Guingona, is no great shakes as an investigator of allies of President BS Aquino The Last, I mean The Third.

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