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Nakakahawa rin ang katapangan

Published by Ellen on May 6, 2009

Update: Judge Lorredo allowed Lozada to be under Senate custody.

Kung nakakahawa ang masama, ganuun din ang kabutihan at katapangan. Nanindigan si Jun Lozada. At ito, nakita rin natin na naninindigan ang judge na humahawak ng kanyang kaso, si Judge Jorge Emmanuel Lorredo.

Dinala sa Medical Center Manila si Lozada noong Martes ng gabi dahil sa dehyration. Mabuti na rin daw ang lagay niya ngayon.

Naka-schedule siyang i- arraign sa sala ni Judge Jorge Emmanuel Lorredo ngayong araw at 8:30 ng umaga. Bago niyan magkakaroon ng pagdarasal. Sabi ni Lorredo sa kanyang pambihirang order na maaring sumali ang mga iba’t-ibang grupo na sumusuporta kay Lozada sa morning prayers . Sabi pa niya gusto ng Supreme Court na simulan ang sesyon sa korte ng pagdarasal.

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Making a statement

Published by Ellen on April 30, 2009

Check out Lito Banayo’s column in Malaya: ‘Baligtad na ang mundo’

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Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, a star witness in the $329 mil-lion NBN/ZTE deal, could have easily posted P6,000 bail in the perjury case filed by Gloria Arroyo’s former chief of staff, Mike Defensor to avoid arrest.

But he did not, as a sign of protest. “This is the only way I can mount a protest that is not against the law,” he said.

Lozada is now confined in a small room, non-airconditioned at the second floor of the Manila Police headquarters on UN Avenue. Judge Emmanuel Lorredo of the Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 26 who issued the arrest warrant suddenly went on leave yesterday so the arraignment was re-scheduled on May 7.

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Jun Lozada one year after

Published by Ellen on February 4, 2009

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Photos taken after the mass last Thursday at La Salle Greenhills:

1. Jun with wife Violet and son
2. With supporters, Juana change and Dante Madriaga
3. Jun with sisters Oye, Carmen and friend Pong Querubin

by VERA Files

One year after he survived abduction by a team led by an officer of the Philippine National Police, the tables are turned on Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, one of the star witnesses in the aborted $329.5 million national broadband project with the Chinese firm, ZTE Corp.

Lozada is in danger of going to jail for the charges of perjury and graft filed against him by persons involved in his Feb. 5, 2008 abduction upon his arrival from Hongkong after he tried avoiding to testify before the Senate investigation on the reported overpriced telecommunication project.

He is embroiled in a theft case filed by a woman he swore he never met in his whole life.

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Jun Lozada’s reflections

Published by Ellen on February 3, 2009

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Tomorrow, friends and supporters of Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, one of the star witnesses in the $329.5 million aborted telecommunications deal with China’s ZTE Corp, will trace his harrowing experience with the minions of Gloria Arroyo on Feb. 5, 2008.

There will be a mass at the La Salle Greenhills chapel at 7 p.m.

I sent Lozada questions on his thoughts today and here are his answers:

Q:One year after, you are still living under the protective custody of La Salle brothers and the nuns. Do you regret exposing the NBN/ZTE anomaly? If you can turn back the clock, would you do the same?

Lozada: One year after of exile in our own country under the protective custody of the Christian Brothers of La Salle and the AMRSP, I am still convinced that I did the right thing of exposing to the Filipino people the magnitude and the involvement of GMA, FG and their minions in the large scale corruption that is plundering our nation into poverty.

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Sa wakas, nagdesisyon si JDV

Published by Ellen on November 5, 2008

Mabuti naman at pumirma ng impeachment complaint laban kay Gloria Arroyo si dating House Speaker Jose de Venecia.

Kailangan maghanap ng ibang panlalait ang mga kaalyado ni Gloria Arroyo sa pang-apat na impeachment complaint na isinampa laban sa pekeng presidente.

Parang hindi nga tama pagsamahin ang “impeachment” at “pekeng presidente” kasi ang ini-impeach lamang ay ang legal na presidente. Ang mga peke kasi dapat tinatapon. Kaya lang, ganyan talaga sa Pilipinas.

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Hindi nakapagtataka

Published by Ellen on September 15, 2008

Talaga namang nakakadismaya ang pagbasura ng Court of Appeals ng petisyon ni Rodolfo Noel “Jun” Lozada, ang star witness sa NBN/ZTE deal, na mabigyan ng lunas ang kanayng seguridad na nanganib at patuloy na naganganib nang siya at tangkain na kidnapin ng mga galamay ng pmahalaan noog Feb. 5.

Hindi naman daw kinidnap si Lozada, sabi ni Justice Celia Librea-Leagogo na sinang-ayunan ni Justices Regalado Maambong at Sixto Marella, Jr.

Ngunit hindi nasorpresa si Lozada. Kami rin hindi nasopresa. Ang eskandalo na nangyari sa Court of Appeals tungkol sa GSIS at Meralco kung saan naglabasan ng baho ang ilan sa mga justices sa kasong bilyon-bilyon ang nakasalalay, ay katiting lang yun sa katiwalian na nagyayari sa ating hustisya.

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Kapag katotohan, tama sa lahat na oras

Published by Ellen on May 26, 2008

Ano ba naman itong si JDV? Naghihintay raw siya ng tamang panahon para sabihin ang alam niya tungkol sa NBN-ZTE scandal kasi kapag kinuwento raw niya ang alam niya baka raw matumba si Gloria Arroyo.

O ano ngayon kung matumba si Arroyo? Yun ang pinakamagandang mangyari sa Pilipinas.

Sinabi ng Inquirer kahapon na tinawagan raw nila si House Speaker Jose de Venecia na nasa Russia tungkol sa plano ng Senate Blue Ribbon committee na tatawagin siya bilang resource person sa imbestigasyon ng maeskandalo na $329 million (dolyar yan, ha) na kontrata sa ZTE Corporation ng China para magpatayo ng national broadband dito sa Pilipinas.

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