Purchase of 2 GMA choppers hit
December 26, 2007
Written by News Team, in Philippine News
Senate President Manuel Villar has questioned why the proposed purchase of two helicopters by the Office of the President already identified the brand of the helicopters. Sen. Panfilo Lacson asked why the President should buy two eight-seater helicopters when President Gloria Arroyo and her husband, Jose Miguel Arroyo, could be accommodated in only one helicopter.
The proposed 2008 budget of the Office of the President contains P1.268 billion for the purchase of the two Bell helicopters at P634 million each. Villar said that even if the purchase of new helicopters is justified, the specification of the brand remains questionable.
That means negotiations for the purchase had already been concluded, he said.
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f…. president gloria! she spends a lot on herself like buying helicopters for the presidential airlift when in fact the air force is in dire need of new jet fighters and helicopters and our soldiers are being killed in combat while she just sits in her office and sucks the money out of the government!!! I hope she will die and go straight to hell!!!!!!!!!