Get this: He says he’s ready to go to jail for standing his ground, so to speak.
“Makati Mayor Junjun Binay will again defy the subpoena issued by the Senate blue ribbon sub-committee for him to attend the hearing on Thursday, October 2, on the controversial Makati City Hall 2 parking building,” reports Maila Ager on Inquirer.net.
The report noted: “In another bid to stop the Thursday hearing, Binay, through his counsel, Atty. Claro Certeza, filed before the Office of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee a manifestation with motion reiterating the ‘jurisdictional’ challenge that the mayor had earlier raised against the sub-committee being headed by Senator Koko Pimentel III.”
When asked if Binay was “ready to face arrest if he would defy the sub-committee,” Certeza replied: “Well, we need to face that. If that’s really going to be their decision. But I’m hoping that it will not lead to that anymore because the rules are very clear.”
But, apparently, for it to come to this point, the rules aren’t that clear to everybody.
Screengrab from Mayor Junjun Binay’s Facebook page
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