Solons to PNoy: Finish what your mother started, continue hunt for Marcos wealth
Andreo Calonzo, GMA NEWS
January 2, 2013

“Finish what your mother started.”

This was how two progressive party-list lawmakers challenged President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to continue the hunt for the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ embezzled wealth after the head of the commission in-charge of the search said his agency will already quit the chase.

Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Neri Colmenares said the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) should not back down on the pursuit for Marcos’ supposed ill-gotten wealth, despite financial and political challenges expressed by the agency’s current head, Andres Bautista.

“Ang leksyon na matutunan kung ihihinto ang paghanap ng Marcos wealth is that crime pays and if you steal big, you can get away with it,” Colmenares said in a text message.

On Tuesday, Bautista said the PCGG is set to wind down its near-30-year efforts to recover the $10 billion allegedly amassed by the Marcos family during the late dictator’s two decades in power, despite the fact that more than half of the amount is still missing.

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