TACLOBAN CITY — Letting the public remember and reminding them the lessons that EDSA taught 25 years ago was the goal of the Philippine Commission for Good Government in their campus visitation throughout the country in line of their 25th year anniversary.
PCGG Commissioner Maita Chan-Gonzaga in a press conference held yesterday at the Leyte Normal University (LNU) explained that they are visiting regions in the country to let people know that efforts to recover of the so-called Marcos ill-gotten wealth and their cronies.
The lady commissioner added that part of their campus visitation is to educate the people that the PCGG is not only mandated to go after ill-gotten wealth, but according to law that created them they are also entitled to investigate and come up and develop safeguards or measures to promote anti-corruption.
Since 1986, 291 cases are under their supervision and pending in court, mostly Marcos-related cases filed 23 years ago.
In the region, among the sequestered properties are the Olot Mansion in Tolosa, Santo Niño Shrine, People Center, Nipa Hut and radio station DyBR and television station PRTV 12, all located in the city of Tacloban and all owned by the Romualdezes.
Aside from LNU, the PCGG will also visit Visayas State University in Baybay City.
“We chose schools which are center for excellence on teaching education because we want our teachers to educate the students on the lessons of EDSA and the center of excellence on agriculture for the agrarian reform program,” she explained.
LNU is the 8th school they visited on the 20 schools determined by the Commission of Education as center for excellence.
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