GALANG’S MYSTERIOUS DEPARTURE – Newsmen and kibitzers are abuzz lately about a recent political development in Calasiao town.

Reason is the resignation of Vice Mayor Ferdie Galang from his elective position.

Galang won in the 2016 elections.

A week before Galang’s resignation letter was submitted to the local office of the Department of Interior and Local Government, someone whispered to me this big news that was to happen in Calasiao.

Surprised, I convinced my source to tell me the inside story in confidence.

“Basta mantalaran ki labat kayari New Year onputok la tan (Just be on alert, that will explode after New Year),” the insider said. The resignation letter has been signed and it is ready for submission, he added.

New Year came and just after the holidays, the report came true. The resignation letter has been accepted and Number 1 Councilor Mahadeva Das Mesina replaced Galang.

Mesina, by law of succession, immediately took his oath as the new vice mayor.

Many eyebrows were raised by the reason/s Galang gave barely six months after he was elected.  Galang said he did it for personal reason, that he will migrate to another country.

Of course, people would not take that. Speculations cropped up. Gossips spread.

In my case, while I may be privy to some truths about the resignation, pardon me if I don’t write that story because it was told to me in confidence.

Suffice it to say, “Galangin na lang natin yung desisyon ni Vice Mayor Galang.”—Tita Roces

 

PATHETIC DETRACTORS –  It appears that the detractors of Mayor Belen Fernandez will not stop at nothing and by any means to belittle if not destroy the many gains that she has done so far, to prevent her from making any more difference in the city.

They, (detractors), minions of politicians or disgruntled employees separated from the service by city hall for wrongdoing (including corruption), appear to be threatened by everything that she does for the city.

Firstly, the unseen hands vented their anger on the lanterns (bought by the city from drug  surrenderers in Barangay Tebeng) that were installed in different lamp posts, in an obvious act of vandalism.

The same people are suspected to be behind the malicious rumors that the Mayor will be suspended for a case filed by parties before the Ombudsman, which of course did not happen as there was no case at all that could warrant her suspension as explained to us by City Legal Officer Vicky Cabrera.

And when this did not work, the group tried another nasty rumor that a shooting incident occurred at the carnival site on Jose de Venecia Expressway where seven persons were killed, simultaneously with another rumor about a bomb threat at the Paseo de Belen.

Of course, all these were promptly denied by Supt. Neil Miro, chief of police, who issued a disclaimer in the social media that no such things happened as he branded all these as the works of ill-motivated pranksters out to destroy the city.

If politicians are orchestrating a systematic campaign against Mayor Belen and dictating on their minions to begin discrediting her, they surely appear very desperate. They refuse to wait till 2019 election for a chance to go against Mayor Belen or to field their candidates against her.

Methinks that no one can yet beat Belen’s stamina and passion for public service as evidenced by the many programs and projects she has done for the city.

If these detractors are former city hall workers that fell from graces of the appointing power for their wrongdoing, they are pathetic. The mayor did the right thing to remove them! – Leonardo Micua

 

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