Press Release
October 10, 2007

PRESS STATEMENT OF SENATOR AQUILINO PIMENTEL, JR.
On National Economic and Development Authority director general
Augusto Santos' refusal to submit minutes of meetings of NEDA-Investment
Coordinating Council subpoenaed by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee

The Blue Ribbon Committee should ask Mr. Santos once again to produce those papers. If he refuses without justifiable reasons to do so, he should be cited for contempt and compelled to appear before the committee to explain himself. If he cannot adequately do so, then he should be punished for his contumacious act and held in detention until he purges himself of the unjustifiable acts of defiance of the inherent power of the Blue Ribbon Committee power to compel the production of documents and the appearance of persons for purposes of its investigations.

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