WEDNESDAY |JANUARY 22, 2009 | PHILIPPINES

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Her lips are sealed. Araos, right, and Paule at Senate hearing.

PHOTO BY PHILIP DUQUIATAN

 

IBP to SC: Suspend
RaulGon as lawyer

Misconduct found in P10T offer for 12-0 admin win

BY EVANGELINE DE VERA

THE Integrated Bar of the Philippines has recommended the suspension of Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez for obstruction of electoral processes.

In a one-page notice, the IBP Commission on Bar Discipline through its national secretary Tomas Prado took note of the Board of Governors’ Resolution dated Nov. 20, 2008 that "resolved to reverse… the Report and Recommendation of the Investigating Commissioner and approve the suspension from the practice of law for one year of Gonzalez for his reprehensible conduct of openly and publicly offering P10,000 to any barrio captain in his area (Iloilo) of political influence who can give a 12-0 vote in favor of President Arroyo’s senatorial candidates and taking into consideration his previous professional misconduct."

As mandated, the IBP through the Commission on Bar Discipline acted as prosecutor in the complaint that investigated the case for finding of probable cause.

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‘Slavery to history, the
Obama inauguration’

WASHINGTON. —Barack Obama makes history on Tuesday as America’s first black president, riding the optimism of millions of people into power and inheriting a recession and two wars that will test his skills.

Obama, 47, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, takes his oath of office at midday (1 p.m. Wednesday in Manila) on the steps of the US Capitol, his hand placed on a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration in 1861.

Obama’s inauguration culminates the hopes and dreams of generations of African-Americans who suffered slavery and then racial segregation policies that made them second-class citizens.

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Prosecutors stay grounded
until GMA says otherwise

BY REGINA BENGCO

JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez yesterday said NBI-cleared officials and state prosecutors who were ordered to go on leave pending the probe on the bribery scandal of the so-called Alabang Boys cannot return to work until ordered by President Arroyo.

"It was the President who ordered that they should go on leave although the President emphasized that that leave is not punitive in nature. It’s not what we consider as a suspension," he said.

Placed by Gonzalez on forced leave last week were Chief State Prosecutor Jovencito Zuño, Undersecretary Ricardo Blancaflor, and state prosecutors John Resado, Misael Ladaga and John Ladaga.

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