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An official of the Presidential
Commission on Good Government said on Friday that the agency expects
to finish all Marcos cases before President Arroyo ends her term in
2010.
Commissioner
for Legal Affairs Narciso Nario said that as far as they are
concerned all 901 cases involving Imelda Marcos and her immediate
family have been moving.
“We will not
have to wait for another 21 years for all of them to be resolved
because the PCGG is moving forward. We are asking the courts to
expedite all our motions and petitions,” Nario said.
His statement
was in response to the misgivings of former solicitor general Frank
Chavez that the PCGG has not done anything to resolve the Marcos
cases.
Nario said
many of the cases are now in the Sandiganbayan and up for
resolution.
“The problem
now is that we will have to wait for the antigraft court to decide
on the merits of the cases,” Nario, a former Sandiganbayan judge,
said.
He said that
whatever the Sandiganbayan’s decisions on the cases would be, the
PCGG is ready to go before the Supreme Court where there could be
another long battle.
Nario said
that next week the PCGG would petition the Supreme Court to order
the Sandiganbayan and the other lower courts handling Marcos cases
to pick up the pace.
 --Francis
Earl A. Cueto
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