Analysts are asking why the Makati Business Club is awfully silent on the corruption charges that has been thrown against its former mayor, United Nationalist Alliance presidential bet Jejomar Binay.
Economist Rudy Romero in his The Standard column said: “MBC was unrelenting, even vicious, in its campaigns against Estrada and Arroyo corruption. But it has not gone hammer and tongs against Jejomar Binay’s alleged grievous corruption. Why not?”
“The nation’s most ardent anti-corruption business organization and the public official with the most corruption charges leveled at him. Both Makati residents. The supreme irony of Makati,” Romero added.
Atty. Pachico A. Seares had also posed the same question in his Sunstar piece where he noted that the MBC has yet to share its intimate knowledge of its members’ business dealings with the Binay dynasty.
“It’s national yet intimately local to business leaders of Makati.
It involves Makati public funds. And it’s about governance, which must seriously affect the way they do business in that city. How could Makati business leaders not deal with the situation?” asked Seares.
Except for a statement focusing solely on Makati Mayor Junjun Binay’s defiance of the second Ombudsman order for his six-month suspension on July 2015 (NBC was silent on the first), the MBC has ignored the slew of corruption allegations unearthed in the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee.
The members of MBC’s board of trustees are:
* Ramon R. del Rosario Jr.
President and CEO, Philippine Investment Management, Inc.
* Jaime Augusto Zobel De Ayala II
Chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation
* Roberto F. de Ocampo
Chairman, Philippine Veterans Bank
*Aurelio R. Montinola III
Director, Bank of the Philippine Islands
* Ricardo J. Romulo
Senior Partner, Romulo Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & De Los Angeles
* Edgar Chua
Country Chairman, Shell Companies in the Philippines
* Corazon S. De La Paz
Adviser to the Board, BDO Unibank, Inc.
* Doris Magsaysay Ho
President and CEO, Magsaysay Group of Companies
* Guillermo D. Luchangco
Chairman and CEO, The ICCP Group
* Cirilo P. Noel
Chairman and Managing Partner, SGV & Co.
* Wilfred Steven Uytengso Jr.
President and CEO, Alaska Milk Corporation
