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3019). He resisted calls to conduct a purge of Marcos-era employees, though he did aim to make executive cuts while expanding the number of mail carriers, mail sorters, and other base-level employees. Banayo was also responsible for the push to establish the Philippine Postal Corporation, a government-owned company, to replace the old Bureau of Posts.
At the time, Banayo had just undergone heart surgery, and did not appear at a Senate Agriculture and Food Committee hearing about the smuggling allegations; chairman Francis Pangilinan stated in media comments that the committee would schedule another hearing. Orlan Calayag was appointed to succeed him in January 2013.
In December 2012, 4 SM Agri Venture Multi-Purpose Cooperative head Simeon Sioson claimed in testimony before the Senate that Banayo and Nixon Kua had been involved in rice smuggling.
Lito Banayo hints Zaldy Co may hold Maltese passport
Political strategist Lito Banayo has raised questions over whether former Ako Bicol party-list representative Zaldy Co holds a Maltese passport amid growing calls for him to return to the Philippines to face corruption allegations.
In his October 30 column for The Manila Standard, Banayo mused on the fate of lawmakers implicated in the multibillion-peso flood control scandal, predicting that only contractors and low-level Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials would face jail time.
“Yet one Zaldy Co, perhaps armed with a Maltese passport, is ensconced in some European villa or maybe a Caribbean hide-away, even a Colombian jungle, for all we know,” Banayo wrote.
Malta, an EU member state, previously offered citizenship through investment, a program that allowed foreigners to obtain Maltese passports in exchange for hefty contributions and residency.
Fellow party members denied reports that his withdrawal was related to unpopularity or the rice smuggling inquiry against him.
In February 2013, the Senate committee recommended that Banayo and Gilbert Lauengco of the NFA's special bids and awards committee be charged under the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act (R.A. By January 2011, Banayo had produced a report with his findings, alleging overpricing of rice imports during the Arroyo administration, which he submitted to Aquino for further investigation; Arroyo-era agricultural officials including Arthur Yap disputed Banayo's price data.
During the rest of his tenure, Banayo aimed to decrease the agency's role in rice importation, stating that the private sector should take the lead in this regard, and instead focus on local procurement; he would later warn of the financial dangers of the NFA "monopoly" on imports.
In 2014, the National Bureau of Investigation filed graft charges before the Ombudsman against Banayo and five others in connection with the alleged irregular rice importation program of the agency during his Tenure
In September 2012, Banayo resigned from his NFA post to prepare to contest the May 2013 House of Representatives mid-term elections in Agusan del Norte.
In 2004, Banayo went on to become a columnist for the daily newspaper Malaya, a post which he held until 2010. However, his predecessor Golez' Senate campaign was unsuccessful, and in July 1987 Golez was appointed back to Banayo's post.
Late 1990s and 2000s
During the Joseph Estrada administration, Banayo served as a presidential political advisor, as well as general manager of the Philippine Tourism Authority.
He studied economics at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila, and then went on to the Ateneo Graduate School of Business and the University of the PhilippinesCollege of Public Administration.
In the aftermath of the February 1986 People Power Revolution which ousted President Ferdinand Marcos, incoming president Cory Aquino appointed Banayo as Postmaster General, succeeding Roilo Golez who had resigned to run for the Senate in the 1987 elections.
As Postmaster General, Banayo instituted reforms aimed at reducing employee pilferage, in particular installing one-way mirrors at the Manila International Airport Airmail Distribution Center.
Urban decay
Force of habit makes me go to the Binondo area, Manila’s Chinatown, every now and then. There I go to buy some comfort food my mom taught my taste buds to crave for. There I go to buy the best fresh vegetables and fruits at Arranque market. Or take some “pato misua” (duck soup), “ma-ki” (a soup of tender pork cooked in cornstarch), and fresh Amoy lumpia, the nearest thing to how my grandparents did it when they were still alive.
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I actually grew up in Manila, even if we come from other parts of the country. From the time I was five years old, and except for some brief intervals, residence has always been in the historic capital city of the Philippines. From Claro M.
Recto, then called Azcarraga, to Sampaloc, and thence to the more genteel parts of Malate, where I and family have lived for some five decades now. Their findings were later referred to the Ombudsman of the Philippines, which by March 2014 had declined to pursue the matter further.
Lito Banayo
Banayo grew up in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte where his family had moved in the 1960s.
He withdrew from the race at the end of his month, citing health reasons. He spoke out against murder allegations leveled at Senator Panfilo Lacson in 2010, after Lacson had fled the country for Hong Kong.
Banayo was appointed to head the National Food Authority by President Benigno Aquino III, amidst accusations of over-importation by outgoing president Gloria Arroyo's administration.
Banayo also called on the National Bureau of Investigation to help combat rice smuggling. He also investigated corruption and malfeasance as part of a "big cleanup", in some cases finding that allegations of corruption against certain people were in fact false rumors spread by political opponents, while in other cases finding genuine wrongdoing such as a mail-pilfering syndicate operating in the Ilocos and Cagayan Valley regions.
Okay lang si Bong Revilla, but not Inday Sara who succeeded Leni to the vice-presidency?
And then again, whatever is wrong if Inday Sara, visiting Naga City and participating in some of the traditional religious rites of La Virgen de Penafrancia, sought to pay her respects to Leni Robredo, despite whatever snide remarks she may in the past have said about her host?
Yet, the same analysts, politicians, and whoever else have said nothing about Duran Duran jetting into the country for a one-night stand, serenading the President in a very exclusive “strictly by invitation only” birthday bash.
Of course our President wouldn’t be so stupid as to have the treasury shell out 60 million pesos to fund the visit of a washed-out circa 80s band, but was it right to accept the “gift” from private businessmen, as his newly minted press secretary justified?
The same self-styled analysts have not said anything about a Bible-thumping pastor turned congressman flaunting his Rolexes and Benzes’, or a congresswoman from one of the country’s poorest provinces going to the Batasan with multi-million peso Richard Mille wristwatches, or over the top handbags from Rue Faubourg St.
Honore’s luxury fashion labels.
Or some other congresspersons wearing flashy but tasteless ternos while grilling poor resource persons in never-ending committee hearings in aid of publicity?
Or the supposed purchase of a building in Paris’ Rive Droite by the fabulously entitled and uber-powerful party list congressman?
“Katas ng pork barrel”?
The former president who now represents a district in Pampanga, whose landed aristocracy once upon a time preened each year at the Manila Hotel in exquisite gowns and ear-tearing diamonds for La Mancomunidad Pampanguena to compete with the Negrense’s Kahirup Ball, is the epitome of simplicity in her business attire while attending hearings and sessions in the House.
Neither did these commentators, the undisputed “marites” of YouTube, who conjure political significance in everything and anything, question the boorishness of the “honorable” members of Congress when they make salacious remarks on the purely private concerns of their intended victims, or badger them into incriminating themselves even as they already face charges in legitimate courts of law.
Some barangay chairmen probably sporting the prefix “honorable” to their names may well deserve the appellation more than some of our legislators.
Now the latest brouhaha is about the vice-president taking a side trip to Calaguas Island in Camarines Norte after visiting the venerated “Ina” in Naga, thus missing (intentionally they know) the hearings in Congress about her expenditure of funds illegally transferred by DBM from the allocated funds of the Office of the President.
But then pray tell, is visiting a heretofore unknown slice of paradise in the Pacific that is incontestably Philippine territory so grievous as against jetting to Singapore for the F-1 event which mercifully our President did not do this year, a self-abnegating sacrifice as touted by the newly minted chief communications officer of the palace?
Human beings have a right to relax and unwind, and at least in the case of our beleaguered because ill-advised Numero Dos, visiting an island in the Pacific demonstrates her commitment to “LOVE the Philippines.”
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