Noynoy Aquino gave 5 million pesos to MILF?

Yesterday, reports that President Benigno Aquino III gave 5 million pesos to MILF head Al Haj Murad quickly spread among media outlets. 


Reports say that the amount was given by Aquino as "goodwill money" to Murad during their meeting in Japan. 


Question that everybody is asking---if this is true, why? Why give that kind of money to the supposed enemies of the state? 


This is plain and simple treason. It is also like giving money to criminals.


Malacanang should clarify this report immediately. The palace is not empowered to use public money to fund insurgencies. It is so stupid a thing to do, feeding the hand that will eventually strike or bite you.


This also shows how weak our negotiators are in treating matters with the MILF. 


The palace should give further details on the matter since this is an incendiary issue which, if people hear of it, would surely inflame emotions, especially from those surviving kin of the 19 or so soldiers who recently died in Basilan.


(By the way, those who died were on a "test mission"--meaning these are trainees, not hardened combat veterans. It is entire plausible that this test mission was, in reality, a suicide mission. It was planned.)