📷Presidential Adviser on Poverty Alleviation Secretary Larry Gadon
APPALLED over an ABS-CBN news report on his remark claiming poverty as a figment of imagination by critics of the administration, Presidential Adviser on Poverty Alleviation Secretary Larry Gadon threatened to burn the studio of the media network.
“Puro kasinungalingan ang ginagawa dyan sa ABS-CBN Dapat talagang sunugin yang studio na yan eh,” Gadon said in an interview with Teleradyo Serbisyo, a news program under the media company which owns the studio has wanted to burn down.
He also told the news anchor to find another station where they can work – ‘Yang ABS-CBN na yan nung binawian ng prangkisa isinara na… eh lumipat na kayo sa ibang istasyon dahil yang ABS-CBN na yan walang kwentang istasyon yan… puro paninira”
Gadon, who has come under fire over his “haka-haka” description of prevailing poverty in the country, denied the report, adding that his remarks were only directed at critics who are making a big deal on the price of rice in the market but can afford to buy expensive coffee.
“Sana ang ating mga kababayan ay patuloy na suportahan ang Marcos administration, sapagkat sa totoo lang iyong mga nagsasabi ng napakahirap ng buhay ay sila lang ang nagsasabi niyan. Haka-haka lang nila iyan,” Gadon said in a televised interview.
“Magpunta ka sa mga mall punong-puno, ibig sabihin mataas ang purchasing power ng mga tao. Pumunta kahit sa mga probinsya iyong mga branches ng mga fast food – sa Jollibee, McDonalds punong-puno, ibig sabihin mataas ang purchasing power ng mga Pilipino. Lumabas ka ng kalsada at napakaraming mga bagong kotse, napakatrapik, ano ang ibig sabihin niyan, marami ang nakakabili ng kotse, marami ang nakakabili ng sasakyan – that means maganda ang ekonomiya,” he added.
Gadon, a known Marcos loyalist, is a disbarred lawyer. (ANGEL F. JOSE)
