Former student leaders support Tañada's governance advocacy
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Vernon Joseph Go
The transparency and good governance advocacy of deputy speaker Lorenzo Tañada III has gained the support of former student leaders who are now active in the private and government sectors in cebu.
"We are for a good government. We have decided to help ensure that government becomes instrument for social justice and meaningful change," said Atty, Edmund Lao, president of the USC STAND Alumni Foundation. "We found the advocacy of Tañada, who is a former student leader, worthy of support."
Lao and his group that includes newly appointed DOTC Undersecretary Aristotle Batuhan, Danao City Councilor John Cane, Mactan-Cebu International Airport Board member and contractor Pericles Dakay, business consultant Noel Tabasa, and OPASCOR's Tomas Riveral.
They invited Tañada to speak befor a series of forums in local schools about the need for reforms and how to achieve it. The activities is part of the 28th anniversary of the Student Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (STAND), a student party in the University of San Carlos that led boycotts and marches during the Marcos dictatorship.
Lao pointed out that Tañada, know within student activist circles as Erin, has not lost the idealism and zeal for change when he first emerged to national prominence as president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) in 1987.
"He pursued the same advocacies that his lolo and father espoused. It seems to be part of his genes," Lao said referring to Sen. Lorenzo Tañada, the grand old man of the anti-marcos parliament of the streets, and Sen. Bobby Tañada, who led the movement that successfully ousted the military bases from the Philippines.
Right after he was chosen House deputy speaker, Tañada said he will continue his advocacy for transparency in Congress and its independence in relation to the executive department. A liberal party stalwart and stanch supporter of President Benigno Aquiino III, Tañada has vowed to pursue the campaign to stamp out corruption.
Now on this third term at the Lower house, Tañada has a string of laws on human rights, environment and other social concerns that he helped formulate and pass.
"We are for a good government. We have decided to help ensure that government becomes instrument for social justice and meaningful change," said Atty, Edmund Lao, president of the USC STAND Alumni Foundation. "We found the advocacy of Tañada, who is a former student leader, worthy of support."
Lao and his group that includes newly appointed DOTC Undersecretary Aristotle Batuhan, Danao City Councilor John Cane, Mactan-Cebu International Airport Board member and contractor Pericles Dakay, business consultant Noel Tabasa, and OPASCOR's Tomas Riveral.
They invited Tañada to speak befor a series of forums in local schools about the need for reforms and how to achieve it. The activities is part of the 28th anniversary of the Student Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (STAND), a student party in the University of San Carlos that led boycotts and marches during the Marcos dictatorship.
Lao pointed out that Tañada, know within student activist circles as Erin, has not lost the idealism and zeal for change when he first emerged to national prominence as president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) in 1987.
"He pursued the same advocacies that his lolo and father espoused. It seems to be part of his genes," Lao said referring to Sen. Lorenzo Tañada, the grand old man of the anti-marcos parliament of the streets, and Sen. Bobby Tañada, who led the movement that successfully ousted the military bases from the Philippines.
Right after he was chosen House deputy speaker, Tañada said he will continue his advocacy for transparency in Congress and its independence in relation to the executive department. A liberal party stalwart and stanch supporter of President Benigno Aquiino III, Tañada has vowed to pursue the campaign to stamp out corruption.
Now on this third term at the Lower house, Tañada has a string of laws on human rights, environment and other social concerns that he helped formulate and pass.
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