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President Aquino claimed in her <a href="https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1990/07/23/corazon-c-aquino-fourth-state-of-the-nation-address-july-23-1990/" class="news_link" target="_blank" title="SONA">State of the Nation Address in July 1990</a> before a joint session of Congress that her administration built a total of 3,365 kilometers of major roads and 18,120 kilometers of feeder roads from 1986 to 1990.
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Rebuffing Aquino for dishing out fake news, Enrile said: 
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"The kilometers of roads should be easily visible, for the greatest length of the archipelago north to south is 1,851 kilometers only."
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"Perhaps, the President and her Cabinet members should tell us where these new roads are. Frankly, I have not seen any in my travels in the countryside. Of course, some could be located inside Hacienda Luisita, as one Commission on Audit report disclosed."
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Aquino also claimed that "27,530 more hectares of farmlands were irrigated in 1989, benefiting 18,500 more farmers."
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"Where are these irrigated farmlands located?" Enrile asked. "Could these be in Tarlac or some planet like Mars? If this claim is true, why are we still importing rice and corn?"
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In 1988 the Aquino administration imported 187,154 metric tons of rice and 172,263 MT of corn—figures that, Enrile said, disproved the truth of what the administration claimed.
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The same is true with the Aquino claim that "51,820 water-supply projects" benefited "nearly 7,000,000 more Filipinos." It was all fake news, said Enrile.  He asked:
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"People in the rural areas often ask me for public funds to provide them with safe drinking water. With 51,820 water-supply projects, each of our 41,000 barangays should have at least one [water supply] project. But where are these water-supply projects?"
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"When told about these "water-supply projects," barangay residents reacted in disbelief. Could it be that our barangay folks, ordinary mortals like us, are blind and do not see what the exalted officials of the Aquino administration see?"
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One trillion pesos
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This is the enormous amount of money spent by the Cory Aquino administration from 1986 to 1990, said Enrile, who was among the very few who unmasked the alleged  myth and lies of the Aquino presidency.
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"One trillion pesos staggers the imagination," said Enrile in an August 1, 1990, report to the Philippine Senate on the real state of the nation. "Congress has generously made available to the Aquino administration a huge sum of money—almost one trillion pesos—from 1986 to this day."
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The Aquino administration availed itself of P114.5 billion in 1986; P154.9 billion in 1987; P190.7 billion in 1988; P230.4 billion in 1989; and P246.6 billion in 1990, or a total of P937.1 billion. If the budgetary request of P301 billion for 1991 is included, the aggregate amount would have added up to P1.238 trillion.
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When distributed among the 60 million Filipinos at that time, adults and children alike, the venerable senator pointed out, each citizen would have received P16,677 or equivalent to half a year’s minimum salary of the average working man.
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Cory Aquino spent 1 trillion pesos in 4 years on ghost projects