It may seem a petty, even preposterous, reason. But given the paranoia of this President, it could be the reason why President Aquino—for all his blah-blahs about transparency in government—doesn’t want the Freedom of Information bill to get enacted.

As soon as FOI bill becomes law, one of the first demands for information could be for certain government documents, which seem on the surface so trivial, but which could be politically disastrous for Aquino.

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