DENR’s Cimatu ‘the right man for polluters’

DENR’s Cimatu ‘the right man for polluters’

By Mart D. Sambalud
DavaoToday.com

DAVAO CITY–The speedy confirmation of Roy Cimatu as the secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) only confirms that he is “the right man for big business plunderers and polluters,” an environmental group said.

Clemente Bautista, national coordinator of the Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE), in a press statement, criticized the members of the Commission on Appointments (CA) for not questioning his track record of “corruption and human rights violation” of which he labeled such as “a case of shared values.”

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