BY EVANGELINE DE VERA
THE government yesterday invoked a basketball
officiating rule of "no harm, no foul" as it asked the
Supreme Court to dismiss all suits questioning the
$329-million national broadband network (NBN) deal between
the Arroyo government and China’s ZTE Corp. on the ground
that it has been cancelled.
In a manifestation, Solicitor General and acting
Justice secretary Agnes Devanadera told the Court that
President Arroyo herself informed Chinese President Hu
Jintao about her decision to cancel the infrastructure
project during a meeting in Shanghai last month.
Devanadera cited the Oct. 24, 2007 letter of the Legal
Service of the Department of Transportation and
Communications informing the OSG of the government’s
decision to scrap the NBN project "due to several reasons
and constraints."
