‘I won’t file my resignation’—Camilo Sabio
Carmela Fonbuena, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak | 09/11/2008 11:54 AM
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Embattled PCGG chair Camilo Sabio maintained today that he will not give in to calls for his resignation.
“I won’t file my resignation. Even assuming that I would be disbarred I could still stay because as Justice Nario—one of our commissioners—stated, being a lawyer is not a qualification to be chairman of PCGG,” he told reporters today at the House of Representatives.
“I serve at the pleasure of the President. I intend to stay. I’m very happy assisting the President and I will stay until 2010 when she leaves office. Unless of course she says I have to leave, then I would have to leave because I serve at her pleasure,” he added.
Sabio attended the budget briefing of the Department of Agrarian Reform. Lands recovered by his agency are supposed to fall under agrarian reform.
Sabio was dragged into the controversial management tiff in Meralco when he called his brother, Court of Appeals (CA) Justice Jose Sabio, allegedly to influence him to favor GSIS in a pending petition.
The case exposed unethical practices by the CA justices, which led to the disbarment of Justice Vicente Roxas and the suspension of Sabio’s brother for two months for irregularities and improprieties.
The PCGG chair refused to comment on the suspension of his brother. Asked if he regrets calling his brother, Sabio said, “If a similar situation would repeat itself, I would be doing the same thing. The consumers were at the disadvantage.”
“I believe that I was right. I did not do anything wrong. I made my statement. I would stick to that…. The Supreme Court has the final say whether I should be disbarred or not and what should be the penalty for talking to my brother. We will have to await it,” he added.
