Thread by @rapplerdotcom

READ: Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi reacts to Senate Resolution 137 backing the filing of graft complaints against DOE officials re: Chevron-Udenna deal involving Malampaya | via @reyaika

@reyaika Cusi: I am elated that this matter may now be brought before the proper legal forum where evidence, logic and reason are used as bases for determining whether or not an irregularity has been committed. | via @reyaika

@reyaika Cusi hits at Senator Sherwin Gatchalian's committee hearings: That had not been the case at the Committee hearing where innuendoes, speculation and hearsay propagated by certain business interests dictated the course of the so-called “investigation” | via @reyaika

@reyaika Cusi: I find it unfortunate that the Malampaya issue has been politicized by those whose business interests must have been put in jeopardy as I stayed on course and performed my duties as Energy Secretary. | via @reyaika

@reyaika Cusi: I call on the public to see beyond the politicization of the issue. I trust that, in time, I will be vindicated before the proper court of the malicious and baseless accusations heaped against my person and the DOE. | via @reyaika

@reyaika Cusi: It is unfortunate that, in the course of the Committee hearings, Senator Gatchalian had chosen to lend his ear to those adversarial business interests. | via @reyaika

@reyaika Cusi alleges: It was obvious in these hearings that Senator Gatchalian has sought to undermine the DOE's ability to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the proposal covering the said sale of shares. | via @reyaika

@reyaika Cusi: It is even more unfortunate that the senator should persist in fueling a gross misunderstanding of the issues on the part of the public… | via @reyaika

@reyaika Cusi: …by unfairly labelling the recent developments on Malampaya as, quote-unquote, “defective, lutong macau, and graft-ridden” which is an insult to the DOE officials and employees. | via @reyaika

FULL STORY: rappler.com/business/senat…