Grace padaca of governor of isabela

Former Isabela governor found guilty of graft, agriculture fund corruption

The country&#;s anti-graft court Sandiganbayan today convicted former Isabela province Governor Grace Padaca of graft and official misconduct over the misuse of PHP25 million (US$ ,) of agriculture funds in

The Quezon City court&#;s third division sentenced Padaca, a politician lauded for her development work, to six to 10 years of imprisonment for graft, and 12 to 14 years for malversation, a form of abuse of office, The Philippine Star reports.

Padaca was accused of favoring an NGO called the Economic Development for Western Isabela and Northern Luzon Foundation Inc. when she awarded it the PHP25 million priority grant for a hybrid rice project in The organization is said to manage credit and seed distribution for farmers in Isabela.

The national ombudsman&#;s office said Padaca illegally awarded the contract, as it was done without public bidding or any other legitimate procurement procedure. The accusation led to the former governor&#;s day suspension, and to the Sandiganbayan calling for Padaca&#;s arrest in

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Isabela&#;s non-dynasty detour

by Isa Lorenzo

ILAGAN, ISABELA — When Maria Gracia Cielo &#;Grace&#; Padaca was proclaimed governor of the northeastern province of Isabela in after a hotly contested election, she knew that an even tougher battle awaited her.

Padaca has been hailed by local and international media as a hero and a giant slayer, for defeating then Governor Faustino Dy Jr. and wresting the post that various members of the Dy family had monopolized for 34 years. Her supporters have since said that she has made a good beginning by opening up democratic space, granting unprecedented access to her constituents, and instituting programs that benefit many Isabelinos.

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Padaca, Grace

Elections are the central institution of Filipino democracy. As Governor GRACE PADACA puts it, they give voters a chance ?to get the wrong people out of government and the right people in.? In practice, however, Filipino elections are almost always contests for power among an elite few. In most provinces, a handful of families controls political power from one generation to the next. Everyone else may vote, but the choices are limited to a cast of all-too-familiar characters. Such was the case in Isabela Province when Governor Padaca launched her unlikely political career. 

MARIA GRACIA CIELO MAGNO PADACA was born in and crippled early in childhood by polio. Taunted by other children, she retreated into a world of books and learned to excel at school. She won scholarships to help pay her own way and, by twenty-one, had qualified as a certified public accountant. At Bombo Radyo in Cauayan, Isabela, she took an accounting job and, almost serendipitously, was soon a broadcaster, too. This suited her, she says, because &#;I could be heard but not seen.&#; 

Every day, for the next fourteen years, hard-hitting &#;Bombo Grace&#; took up the issues of the da

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  • غريس باداكا (ولدت في 25 أكتوبر ) هي سياسية فلبينية ومذيعة سابقة، كانت حاكمة مقاطعة إيزابيلا شمال لوزون الفلبين منذ عام [1] وقد حازت على جائزة رامون ماجسايساي للخدمة العامة في عام في فترة طفولتها، كانت تعاني من مرض شلل الأطفال؛ وكانت تمشي بالعكاز معظم أيام حياتها. في 5 ديسمبر ، منحها سفير الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية جائزة "المرأة الدولية لجائزة الشجاعة"، وقد منحتها أيضا وزيرة الخارجية الأمريكية السابقة كوندوليزا رايس جائزة التطوير المستمر من إيزابيلا. وقد حصلت باداكا على عدة جوائز وتكريمات أخرى في عدة مجالات ونشاطات. (ar)
  • Maria Gracia Cielo Padaca o Grace Padaca (25 d'octubre de ) és una política filipina i exlocutora que va ser la governadora de la província filipina d', al nord de Luzon, des del També va ser guardonada el amb el Premi Ramon Magsaysay per Servei Públic. Durant la seva infantesa va sobreviure a la pòlio, encara que ha caminat amb crosses la major part de la seva vida. (ca)
  • Gracia Cielo "Grace" Magno Padaca (born October 25, ) is a Filipino politician and former broadcaster who has been the governor of the northern Luzon province of Isabela, Philippines from until She is also the re

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