COJUANGCO UPDATES

IMMEDIATELY after he declared in February last year his bid for the gubernatorial post in 2016, former Fifth District Rep. Mark Cojuangco has been subjected to a series of black propaganda, one of them is his being allegedly a non-Pangasinense.

In a huge gathering recently in Calasiao town, Cojuangco addressed the issue without batting an eyelash. He said:

“For your information, we have been in Sison since 1966. My father (Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr.) who was still young then wanted to put up a corporation.

He arrived there, he loaned all his properties, all his inheritance and he borrowed a capital from the bank and used it so he could establish the Northern Cement Corporation (NCC).

If the NCC did not earn, it would have closed shop, his properties could have been auctioned off by the bank, he could have lost his inheritance and maybe we would have ended up poor and I would not be here.

But that did not happen because NCC succeeded, it earned and it became the foundation that paved the way for the equal success of other businesses my dad put up.

My father was able to establish several corporations whose funding came from NCC.

His investments grew and he bought the controlling shares of San Miguel Corporation, the biggest corporation in the Philippines.

That’s why I owe much to the town of Sison and to the province of Pangasinan. And my father taught me this: “Ang taong hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan”.

And so before I become old, you know I am already 57 nearing to become a senior citizen, I want to give back to the province that gave us so much luck, I want to share the blessings that the family Cojuangco has received, because you embraced us here in Sison, Pangasinan.

When the administration of President Marcos was toppled down, we were exiled in America and we couldn’t come home but in 1992 my father decided to run for president of the Philippines.

When we arrived in the airport of Los Angeles and we had with us reporters and television stations and our flight was delayed for three hours. But in the end they could not stop us and we were allowed to come home. When we arrived, I had four places to choose from where I could stay and reside: in Malita in Davao del Sur, in Pontevedra in Negros Occidental, in Paniqui in Tarlac and in Sison, Pangasinan.

I chose Sison, Pangasinan to live in unlike other people out there who claim to be from Pangasinan by mere accident simply because they were born here.

But I can proudly say I love Pangasinan because I chose to live in Pangasinan.

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