The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), together with the United Luisita Worker’s Union (ULWU) and the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang-Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (AMBALA) told Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, to inhibit himself on the Hacienda Luisita issue on the House floor, because it is very unethical for a public official to be using his position to defend his and his families vested interests especially in the halls of Congress. 

According to Carl Anthony Ala, public information officer of KMP, “Noynoy’s use of the house plenary last November 16, defending and justifying the massacre in Hacienda Luisita is clearly an abuse of his mandate as a solon, unethical, immoral and a lucid example of conflict of interests. We were really surprised that he has the gall to stand up and justify the PNP/AFP’s actions. What is more surprising though is that the House ethics committee did not do anything about it,”

“Noynoy as the spokesperson of his powerful clan is using Congress as a pulpit, to exonerate his family from the bloody Luisita massacre and also as a means to divert the public from the root cause of the strike, and that is land. Noynoy, is trying to hide that it is his mother’s (former President Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino) “Stock Distribution Option” (SDO) scheme and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) that is the cause of all this brouhaha. Until genuine land reform is implemented, there will always be conflicts in all the haciendas,” 

Noynoy has also been seen talking to the grouplet of the yellow unionist Ronnie Alcantara at the Congress canteen on November 25, giving instructions to the latter.

As for his part, Rene “Ka Boyet” Galang, president,of ULWU and AMBALA, “Kris Aquino should also shut-up because she does not know what she is talking about. If the hacienda or your family is really neck-deep in debt, then why not give the land to us, the rightful owners of the land? Do not insult us by comparing your mother’s suffering to our plight, your problems are inconsequential, compared to our life and death struggle for survival,”

“For so long your family have lived and prospered from our sweat and blood it is high-time that we get what is rightfully ours,” ended the peasant leader. # # #
 

KMP - 29 November 2004