Aquino keeps visit to
Osmeñas private
NO MEDIA INTERVIEW
DESPITE 4-HOUR WAIT
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Osmeña siblings yesterday said they deeply appreciate President Benigno Aquino III for having taken time out from his very busy schedule yesterday to condole with their family.

The president arrived at the Bacolod Silay Airport at about 2:30 p.m.  with Transportation and Communication Secretary Mar Roxas and Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras for a one-and-a-half hour private visit at the wake of Lourdes de la Rama Osmeña at the social hall of the Redemptorist Church in Bacolod City.

Mrs. Osmeña, 98, and a resident of Bacolod, died at the Pablo O. Torre Memorial Hospital on Sunday.

President Benigno Aquino III is providing development assistance to the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Pilipinas-Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade to get them to realize that by joining society and having more economic opportunities they are in fact achieving what they are fighting to achieve, Senator Sergio Osmeña III said yesterday.

The president is not providing funds for illegal activities, Osmeña said.

The president was at the wake of the senator’s mother, Lourdes de la Rama Osmeña, at the social hall of the Redemptorist Church in Bacolod City yesterday with Transportation Secretary Mar Roxas and Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras.

Despite the tight security for President Benigno Aquino III’s visit in Bacolod City yesterday, some members of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Negros were able to shout their opposition to the release of P31 million in development funds for the members of the Revolutionary Ploretarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade.

Aquino arrived at the Bacolod-Silay Airport at about 2:30 p.m. and was met by Negros Occidental Governor Alfredo Marañon III, Police Regional office-6 Director Chief Supt. Cepriano Querol, and Provincial Police director Senior Supt. Allan Guisihan.

Policemen were also fielded in the street, but at least ten protestors at the Bacolod north terminal in Brgy. Bata were able to holler when the convoy passed. Whether he heard them or not, however, is not known.