Militant groups will hold protest actions at the doorsteps of   public officials in Negros who display “shameless puppetry” to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Bayan-Negros  secretary general Felipe Levy Gelle said yesterday.

By joining the shameful “Unity Walk” with Arroyo and signing paid advertisements in her support, they become participants in the grand cover-up of corruption, Gelle alleged in a press statement.

“In the next few days, protest actions will be held in houses of the puppets of Arroyo as a contribution to the intensifying protest in Bacolod and in Negros Occidental,” he said.

He also said some of the officials are even involved in the regime’s worst cases of corruptions.

At the same time, Gelle cited Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella’s being linked to the administration’s alleged fertilizer scam.

To date, Puentevella has not accounted for the P8 million fertilizer fund given to him and no one those involved in the corruption were prosecuted, Gelle claimed.

Puentevella could not be reached for comment yesterday but he has repeatedly denied in the past involvement in any anomaly in the fertilizer fund.

“The Arroyo regime shows no immediate intention of heeding the people's call for the disclosure of the truth in the recent corruption scandals. Neither does she show any intention of stepping down amid growing calls for her resignation,” Gelle said.

BAYAN called on local officials to stop their blind obedience to the weakening clique of Arroyo and her minions, in its press statement.

It is not too late to join the people’s fight for truth, justice and accountability, Gelle said.

In the next few days, protest actions will be held in houses of the “puppets of Arroyo” as a contribution to the intensifying protest in Bacolod and in Negros Occidental.*

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