Silliman University in Dumaguete City said in a press statement that the rule of law must be upheld as the Senate probes into the allegations of national broadband network whistle-blower Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr., and it called on the public to require accountability from government leaders.

In the same press statement, the school said that the testimony of Lozada, former president of the Philippine Forest Corporation, implicates top government officials and personalities of the land with his revelations on the aborted NBN-ZTE deal.

As a Christian institution, Silliman is constantly conscious of its duty to promote what is morally right and just. It cannot allow the erosion and total disregard of the tenets of transparency and morality in national governance to go unnoticed, the statement added.

Silliman also calls on those in government, whose integrity may have been sullied, to relinquish office immediately in order to protect its sanctity, the statement also said.*

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