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you weren't born yet when bobby fisher was in his prime.

Hahaha malamang galit din ito kay Bobby.

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manila bay's dolomite beach not doing good after serious downpour the other night

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current Ombudsman Samuel Martires is just protecting crooks and corruption. Well, that's very sad, as his annual salary is P7.5 millions. What a waste of taxpayers money

Well, it seems that Samuel Martires is a corrupted crook (read below):

Ombudsman Samuel Martires' wealth grew by P15 million in 2018, according to a summary of his 2018 Statement of Assets and Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) released to media.

The SALN summary showed Martires' net worth rising to P57.064 million in 2018 from P41.878 million in 2017, a difference of P15.186 million.

Ombudsman Martires''' wealth grows by P15 million in 218

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current Ombudsman Samuel Martires is just protecting crooks and corruption. Well, that's very sad, as his annual salary is P7.5 millions. What a waste of taxpayers money

Well, it seems that Samuel Martires is a corrupted crook (read below):

Ombudsman Samuel Martires' wealth grew by P15 million in 2018, according to a summary of his 2018 Statement of Assets and Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) released to media.

The SALN summary showed Martires' net worth rising to P57.064 million in 2018 from P41.878 million in 2017, a difference of P15.186 million.

Ombudsman Martires''' wealth grows by P15 million in 2?18

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Halos lahat naman ng naupong ombudsman mga high profile cases lang ang hindi for sale. May pinsan misis ko na dating insider dyan, parang supreme court din daw ang galawan.

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Who is he protecting?
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:50 AM September 25, 2020

Who is Ombudsman Samuel Martires trying to protect? This is the question provoked by his recent announcement that he would no longer allow the lifestyle check of public officials as a means of establishing culpability in graft and plunder cases.

Since he was appointed to his post by President Duterte in July 2018, Martires has stopped lifestyle checks, citing the “vague” provisions of Republic Act No. 6713, also known as the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees, which requires such persons to “lead modest lives appropriate to their positions and income.”

Everything is subjective, Martires declared, adding that government officials with “distorted values or priorities” and living beyond their means may not necessarily be committing a corrupt act. “Anong pakialam natin sa buhay ng may buhay kung hindi naman nagnanakaw?” he demanded to know at a House hearing on Tuesday: What is our business with anyone’s life if that person is not a thief? Who are we to judge?

Perhaps the man forgets that it is precisely the function of his office to do just that—to exact accountability from and impose correct behavior on public servants playing fast and loose with taxpayer money.

Additionally, public access to the statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) of ranking government officials now depends on their consent, per the Ombudsman’s instruction. The document has been “weaponized” to bring down some politicians, he claimed: “Saan ba gagamitin ang SALN kundi para siraan ang isang kawani o opisyal ng pamahalaan?” He also said the document was not needed to prove “undue injury, undue advantage, even plunder.”

The ban on lifestyle checks and the restriction of public access to ranking officials’ SALNs have predictably elicited public anger. To be sure, why keep these important documents off-limits to the public when Martires himself, then among other associate justices of the Supreme Court, used it in 2018 to oust then Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno for alleged incomplete SALN submissions?

Critics have observed that Martires spoke about doing away with lifestyle checks during House deliberations on his office’s proposed budget for 2021. It does make one wonder if he was bartering the independence of the Office of the Ombudsman for an intact share of next year’s appropriation.

Martires’ other actions have raised suspicion. Only last June, he issued Office Circular No. 13 directing his prosecutors to review cases filed at the lower courts and the Sandiganbayan to determine which could be recommended for withdrawal for, among others, lack of evidence and witnesses. His office has also filed a diminishing number of cases at the Sandiganbayan since he was named to the post. The number has dropped by 73 percent: from 739 cases filed in 2018 (a year he shared with his predecessor, Conchita Carpio Morales, before she retired) to 198 cases in 2019, and only 8 cases in January 2020. One would be led to think that—miraculously—there were fewer instances of graft and corruption in the government. But if that were so, why suggest the dissolution of his own office, as Martires did during the House hearing, saying that witnesses had refused to provide evidence and were thus blocking the progress of the cases filed?

With his apparent exhaustion and frustration with the job, the Ombudsman should quit and give way to others more qualified and more determined to do a good job. Observers have also said Martires’ personal reservations about the law did not give him the license or the authority to do away with its implementation. He should request Congress to legislate amendments to the law, but it’s his duty to enforce it, they added.

Martires should also be reminded of instances in recent political history when the SALN proved crucial in exposing the plunderers in our midst by showing gross mismatches between legitimate incomes and lifestyles of excess. Consider the Marcoses and the ill-gotten wealth that the Presidential Commission on Good Government is mandated to locate and retrieve. Consider the mind-blowing amounts that animated the Estrada presidency, and which eventually came to light. Even the PhilHealth officials caught in the maelstrom of billion-peso corruption have volunteered to undergo a lifestyle check to disprove allegations.

But Martires is seemingly intent on defanging a law intended to pinpoint graft in governance and on providing a convenient shield for those who may have something to hide. Why? Who is he protecting?

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Ombudsman Martires: Cupidity? Stupidity?
By: Solita Collas-Monsod - *inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM September 26, 2020

Yesterday’s editorial in this newspaper, “Who is he protecting?” referring to Ombudsman Samuel Martires, described his recent actions as “seemingly intent on defanging a law intended to pinpoint graft in governance and on providing a convenient shield for those who have something to hide.” Thus, it assumes there is some degree of cupidity on his part.

Well, Reader, it does have a point. After all, Martires is clearly a Duterte boy. While in the Sandiganbayan, he dismissed a case of graft and corruption brought against Mr. Duterte while he was mayor of Davao. Plus, he is a graduate of the San Beda College of Law, which in some cases has been the main quality that seals the deal on presidential appointments.

In any case, Martires was Mr. Duterte’s first appointee to the Supreme Court. And he had barely warmed his seat (but had already voted for that infamous quo warranto case and the extensions of martial law in Mindanao) — he served as associate justice of the Supreme Court for only 16 months — when the President appointed him Ombudsman. He took office in August 2018.

Reader, you will recall that President Duterte at the time had dismissed Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Carandang, a 20-year career veteran in the Office of the Ombudsman, on some trumped-up charge involving the bank accounts that then Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV claimed was Mr. Duterte’s. But then Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said that President Duterte had no authority to do so, and kept Carandang. Gunfight at the OK Corral. Well, when Martires got in, he fired Carandang in early 2019. Mr. Duterte’s boy.

BTW, let me also point out, Reader, that Ombudsman Martires’ 2018 statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN), as reported by Rappler, showed that his wealth grew by P15.186 million in 2018, the jump occurring in the period from August to December, even as he incurred zero debt for the whole year. Rappler also pointed out that the specific cause of the increase could not be determined “without the full SALN” because “Martires released only a summary of his 2018 SALN, and not the full copy, contrary to the practice of the Office of the Ombudsman.” Tsk.

So, in all, a case could be made for cupidity on the part of the Ombudsman. But stupidity may have something to do with it, too.

Look at what Republic Act No. 6713, Section 8, provides: SALNs must be available for inspection at reasonable hours; they must be available for copying by 10 days after they were filed; any person requesting a copy shall be required to pay a reasonable fee; any statement filed under this Act shall be available to the public for a period of 10 years after receipt of the statement. Prohibited acts under this section are to use the SALN for any purpose contrary to morals or public policy or “any commercial purpose other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public.”

That’s clear, isn’t it? SALNs should be readily accessible, and news and communications media are allowed to disseminate them to the general public. But Ombudsman Martires limits access only to representatives of the filer of the SALN or his representative, upon request of a lawful order of a court with regard to a pending case, or to the field and other offices of the Ombudsman conducting an investigation.

Former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales was very kind. She said that her successor “misread.” A rose by any other name.

If that is the case, then Ombudsman Martires also “misread” the Constitution, and the Ombudsman Act of 1989. The Ombudsman is supposed to be the champion of the people, the “sumbungan ng bayan,” not the defender of the government official or the politician. Presumably the latter can take care of themselves.

He also obviously “misread” the Constitution, because he recommended that the Office of the Ombudsman, and even the Sandiganbayan, be abolished! No law can abolish those institutions.

And then he complains that nobody wants to testify against the corrupt government officials. Is testimonial evidence the only way? Isn’t that what the SALNs are for, isn’t that what forensic accountants are for, isn’t that what anti-fraud audits are for? Documentary evidence.

But then, if the Ombudsman habitually misreads, shouldn’t he give way to someone who can do a better job? Cupidity? Stupidity? The people deserve better.

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the cayetanos make a courtesy call to polong in davao city

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it's now apparent that polong's man , eric yap; is what bong go is to the president. like go, yap is the man friday of the presidential son who's willing to do anything for a slice of the pie

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the cayetanos make a courtesy call to polong in davao city

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it's now apparent that polong's man , eric yap; is what bong go is to the president. yap is the man friday of the presidential son who's willing to do anything for a slice of the pie

Classmate daw ni Kags yan


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Classmate daw ni Kags yan


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talaga?

pati mga kaibigan kong davaoeno hindi alam kung saan nanggaling si yap. hindi naman daw iyan active sa local scene or home grown politics dati so malamang hindi daw from there

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talaga?

pati mga kaibigan kong davaoeno hindi alam kung saan nanggaling si yap. hindi naman daw iyan active sa local scene or home grown politics dati so malamang hindi daw from there

He's probably good at looking for opportunities to earn money.

Usually mga anak ng politiko like previously si Mike Arroyo. You need to present to him na kung saan kikita ng pera and just used his influence to make that plan a reality.

So probably ganito din itong dito. Isusubo na lanf sa kanila kung magkano cut nila.


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