BY GERARD NAVAL
ARCHBISHOP Oscar Cruz yesterday said the new
appointees of President Arroyo led by newly minted National
Economic Development Authority chief Ralph Recto must prove that
they are not mere political accommodations for losing under the
administration's senatorial ticket in the 2007 polls.
"Let them not allow Malacañang to make them
pawns in its many and big graft and corrupt practices," Cruz,
former president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the
Philippines, said.
Aside from Recto, fellow losing senatorial
bets Michael Defensor and Tito Sotto were recently appointed to
government posts. Defensor was named chairman of the
Presidential Task Force on Ninoy Aquino International Airport
Terminal 3 and Sotto as head of the Dangerous Drugs Board.
