National Broadband Network An Unfair Deal?

Even a routinary visit by a senator to fulfill an election promise was laced with insinuations.

That proved how contagious the issue about the supposed scam that generated out of the National Broadband Network (NBN) deal and escalating into a full blown battle cry for Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to step down from office.

The reaction from some polluted quarters about the visit yesterday of Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri was swift and spontaneous. He is the secretary-general of the President's party Lakas-CMD.

Just before he finished his business of fulfilling a promise he made during the last election, text messages were already swirling around purportedly indicating that the administration senator was here to buy support from municipal mayors in exchange for siding with the embattled President.

Nothing was further than the truth as the Zubiri visit indicated.

According to the text message, Zuriri was giving mayors P1 million each to buy their loyalty to prop up GMA's sinking popularity.

The Post lost no time in verifying the report.

Through their Bohol contact, the couple former mayor Jose "Boy" Jumamoy and Board Member Socorro Josephine Jumamoy, the Post was able to arrange an airport interview.

Asked about his reaction of the circulated text messages, the senator from Bukidnon dismissed the insinuation as pure fabrication.

He said matter-of-factly that he came to Bohol to fulfill an election promise.