Standing up for the right

“WHAT is right must be kept right. What is wrong must be set right.” This was the mantra of Sen. Panfilo Lacson when he was chief of the Philippine National Police (1991-2001).

We’d like to believe this is what P/Chief Inspector Raymund Nicolas, chief of police of Balungao town has in mind as he remains unfazed by the political moves resorted to by Balungao Mayor Philipp Peralta, who led a protest rally against him, and by the members of the Sangguniang Bayan who declared him persona non grata.

From all indications, the elected officials of Balungao decided to circle the wagons around erring barangay officials because of their ugly patronage politics.

Unfortunately for the town’s politicos, their slip is showing for all to see while the police chief is in the right to stand his ground. Indeed, no one is above the law. The barangay officials, like the mayor and councilors, are accountable if they violate the laws of the land. No amount of political pressure can save anyone who violates the gun law and those suspected of being involved in illegal drug trading. Instead, those who seek to cover-up for the guilty unwittingly expose their ill motives.

If the town’s officials have proof of their police chief’s corrupt activities, then a by all means seek his immediate ouster but to declare him persona non grata for supposed administrative failures, only confirms that the chief of police refuses to be corrupted and coopted for their devious politicking. The politicos ought to take a lesson from President Duterte’s recent decision why he removed Mindanao mayors’ control over their police.

Lesson: The President moves against those who refuse to set things right.

 

GSIS & SSS

NICE to know that the GSIS (Government Service and Insurance System) has quickly acted on the plight of our poor and hapless brethren victimized by the crazed-laden, Maute-instigated Marawi war.  By offering P20,000-emergency loan each to displaced folk in strife-torn Marawi (P40K to others), the GSIS has proven itself once more to be an instant ally of the people in both times of war and peace.

Not to be left behind, the SSS (Social Security System), through its benevolent director, Dagupan-born Gonzalo Duque, has also done its share by likewise offering financial help to its members from the private sector “as soon as the President has formalized the declaration of a state of calamity in Marawi.”

When institutions like GSIS & SSS act with dispatch, it means the government is absolutely pro-service and pro-needy, reinforcing the republic’s mantra of existence as for the people, by the people and of the people. Applause applause!

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