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Amid relief operations, Congress junks impeachment raps against Ombudsman
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Justice junked the impeachment complaint against Ombuds(wo)man Merceditas Gutierrez.
This is in relation to the impeachment complaint filed last March against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez at the House of Representatives by former Cabinet officials and leaders of civil society groups for her alleged “inaction, mishandling, and downright dismissal of clear cases of graft and corruption.”
By a vote of the “absolute majority,” members of the committee said that the complaint was not sufficient in substance.
Akbayan partylist Representative Walden Bello commented, “You didnt even have the decency to count our votes!”














