Press Release
June 2, 2015

Bam On Fair Competition, Blue Ribbon Report
(Transcript)

On Fair Competition Bicam "We were able to discuss significant parts of the bill but admittedly hindi pa tapos. We will have a second bicam on Thursday to be able to reconcile other versions na hindi ganoon kalalim.

I think in principle, we agreed that some acts are really violative, abuse of dominant position, anti-competitive agreements.

Mayroon isang sektor na mayroong dominant player na inaabuso iyong kanyang pagiging malaki, hindi niya pinapayagan ang maliliit na makapasok sa merkado o di kaya may nagdedehado sa consumers natin, bawal iyon.

Of course, pagdating sa paggawa ng batas, nasa specifics talaga iyan. So a phrase na present sa kanilang version na wala sa amin might play a big difference. So what we did was, we'll be tackling some of those more contentious provisions on Thursday but a lot of the provisions, majority ng provisions, nag-a-agree naman kami. It took us about five hours. It's quite lengthy but very important.

Maraming mga pagkakapareho, mayroon ding pagkakaiba. I think iyong pagkakapareho, medyo na-tackle na namin iyon. Iyong ibang pagkakaiba ita-tackle namin sa Thursday."

On the Blue Ribbon Sub-Committee Report "Wala akong personal motives kay Vice President Binay o kay Mayor Binay at doon pa sa napakaraming involved.

Ako lang, napakasimple lang naman. You look at the facts.

I think it was clear that the (Makati City Hall Parking) building was overpriced. Maraming methods ang ginamit para makita kung paano siya overpriced. That in itself is enough already para i-recommend na ituloy ang kaso ng ating Ombudsman.

Para sa akin, simple lang naman. Kapag mayroong bagay na may corruption o may bagay na irregular. Whether its irregularity or may corruption talaga, that can be investigated by the Ombudsman, sa tamang forum. Kung kinakailangang mag-file ng charges, dapat mag-file ng charges ang Ombudsman.

Ako, hindi dahil sa 2019 pa matatapos ang term ko. For me, simple lang, you look at the facts of the case. This is nothing personal against the Vice President.

Kahit sino pa iyan, you know, noong nagkaroon ng Blue Ribbon hearing sa Napoles cases, we also signed the Blue Ribbon Report there.

Pag medyo malinaw na mayroong tiwali na nangyari o may nangyaring di tama o nadedehado ang taumbayan, I think it's just right that the Committee forwards this to the appropriate government agency para ma-resolve ng agency na iyon. At the end of the day, recommendatory lang naman ang Blue Ribbon Committee. I think the right recommendation was to look into the cases further."

Q: Hindi ho kayo naniniwala na ginagamit ng ibang puwedeng tumakbong president/vice president for 2016?

"I can't speak for them. Hindi ako spokesman nila.

I can only speak for myself. Para sa akin, simpleng-simple lang. May mga facts na nilabas, hindi nasagot iyong mga facts na iyon.

Dahil hindi nakasagot, malinaw na the facts that the building was overpriced or that there were irregularities sa bidding process, hindi naman iyon naiba.

So the fact na mayroon ganoong issues means kailangang imbestigahan iyan ng tamang ahensiya."

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