Considering a country where a third world population in rank lives on less than a dollar a day, President Aquino III has managed to purchase a third-hand 2007 Porsche. At a press briefing in Malacañang, Lacierda defended, ‘It’s a private purchase, it came from his own funds. The purchase were proceeds from the sale of another asset and that other asset was acquired through personal loans. He’s subject to scrutiny as a public official, I will grant آپ that. [But] what he does, again, privately is entirely his own discretion and I think we should allow him some private space,’ he said....
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