Does Sec. Mar care for Pangasinan?

THE Philippine National Police, for still unknown reasons, decided to keep Pangasineses continue as easy preys to drug syndicates.

The National Police Commission, through the PNP leadership, decided to pull out its newly designated OIC-Pangasinan provincial director, P/Sr. Supt. Belli Tamayo and replaced with him another OIC after 3 weeks, even before he could start to implement his announced plans to intensify the campaign against illegal drugs.

Curiously, Mr. Tamayo replaced P/Sr. Supt. Reynaldo Biay after 9 months, at a time when the latter was beginning to gain momentum in the campaign against illegal drugs that the Espino administration launched last year.

On hindsight, we note that each time we run success stories on the campaign vs. illegal drugs, the results-oriented OIC is quickly replaced. How long will the new OIC, P/Sr. Rollie Saltat, stay on? Will it also depend on how he plans to fight off the drug lords?

This leads us to wonder whether the drug lords have already taken over the Napolcom and actually dictates how a campaign vs. illegal drugs should be conducted and how and when it should end.

Doesn’t Interior Sec. Mar Roxas care at all about the plight of families in Pangasinan? Or is the good secretary out of the loop again? Either way, he is failing us.

 

Binay bluff

TO those lambasting Jojo Binay for asking the support of President Aquino in his presidential bid in 2016, they know nothing at all about politics, that there are no enemies, only allies.

To a politician, his worst critic is not even a foe but someone that is helping him tremendously to boost his stock, popularity.  Thus, every headline that Binay gets, good or bad, is free publicity.

When he asked P-Noy’s backing in his 2016 bid for the Palace, Binay knew beforehand he’d be turned down.  Still, he went for it, knowing fully well his pitch would be grist for good copy.  The national media simply adores angles that feed on the sensational.  And what if, in a bizarre turn of events, P-Noy makes a slip and somehow bites the Binay bait—even if done with a wee-bit of sarcasm, or joke?  Overall, didn’t P-Noy’s men react rather strangely, short of putting them all on panic mode—to Binay’s benefit, of course?  “Not in our wildest dreams will we ever support Binay,” said a P-Noy lapdog.

To that dig and the other super-patronizing, Malacanang-inspired responses that smacked of buffoonery, Binay had the last laugh.

The Binay bluff lives on.

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