Isn’t it expected for you to have solid proof before you make accusations?
“The allegation that Makati City’s cakes given out to senior citizens celebrating their birthdays were overpriced at PHP1,000 each seemed to have fizzled out on Tuesday when Renato Bondal admitted that he just ‘guessed’ the figure,” reports Leila B. Salaverria in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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The report noted: “Bondal is the complainant in a plunder case against Vice President Jejomar Binay and Makati Mayor Junjun Binay for the alleged overpricing of a PHP2.3-billion parking building.”
The report went on to point out that “Bondal, a political rival of the Binays, last week told a Senate blue ribbon subcommittee that even the cakes were not spared from the alleged practice of overpricing attending Makati’s big-ticket infrastructure projects.”
However, on Tuesday, August 26, when Senator Tito Sotto asked him about his basis for the overpriced cakes allegation, he said the PHP1,000 price was his own guesswork.
His exact words: “Iyon po’y hula lang namin (That is just our guess).”
Meanwhile, Binay’s camp claimed that the cakes they give away in Makati only cost a little over P300.
Photo from MorgueFile (for illustration purposes only, not one of the actual cakes mentioned in story)
