Veteran journalist hits PNoy: He listens to no one

Veteran journalist Jojo Robles recently took a shot at former president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III as a response to the latter’s statement of purchasing the Dengvaxia vaccine “in good faith”, stating that during his term, he only surrounded himself with friends and “yes-men”.

In the Facebook post, Robles said that the former president could not take criticisms which is why he only has “yes-man” in his administration. Robles even called some of Aquino’s allies as “sycophants”.

Robles also went on to discuss that PNoy cannot claim good faith when he implemented the Dengvaxia vaccination program because it was evident of his usual practice of doing things in haste then letting his administration deal with the problems that may arise.

He said that Aquino cannot hide behind the veil of “answering to the bosses” when in fact, he always end up deciding their fate with or without consultation.

“Noynoy never cared about the people… He was the boss of all bosses - and everyone should heave a long sigh of relief knowing that he no longer is.”

Read his full post here:

"WHAT GOOD FAITH? The context here is that Noynoy Aquino surrounded himself with sycophants and yes-men during his entire term because he considered even the slightest criticism as a personal affront.

This is also the reason why Aquino could listen only to the advice of a suspended national police chief when he planned and executed the raid that would end up as the Mamasapano Massacre.

Noynoy only listened to the people he wanted to listen to, and they always told him what he wanted to hear.

Aquino cannot claim good faith when his implementation of the Dengvaxia program was the result of his usual process of deciding first and letting his subalterns do whatever dirty work needed to get the job done afterwards.

And he must not be allowed to pretend one more time that he answers to “bosses” when he always unilaterally decided their fate – whether they liked it or not, whether they were consulted or not or whether the decision would harm them or not.

Aquino, despite his supposedly being descended from icons of democracy, was really the worst kind of despot: the unthinking, unfeeling, unaccepting of responsibility kind.

Noynoy never cared about the people, whom he considered mere numbers needed by a foreign drug company in order to test an unproven vaccine.

He was the boss of all bosses – and everyone should heave a long sigh of relief knowing that he no longer is."

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Source: Facebook