What gives?

THE office of the provincial police director has been vacant for almost a month now and Pangasinan officials are getting very upset at the seeming disregard of the matter by the police officialdom and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to whom the Philippine National Police (PNP) reports.

What gives? The delay in the submission of a list of candidates to the governor is in itself unprecedented. Taken in the context of all the controversy that surrounded the previous police director, Senior Superintendent Marlou Chan, the situation becomes suspicious. It speaks either of the inefficiency on the part of the regional and national hierarchy of the PNP or the widening gap between local officials and DILG Secretary Mar Roxas, a known supporter of former Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza.

Braganza lost by a landslide to Gov. Amado Espino Jr. in the May 2013 election and so it would not be far off to cross the minds of Pangasinenses that it could be a case of Roxas demonstrating an attitude of: You are Espino and we are not allies. Let’s hope that is not true because it reeks of stinking politics, the kind that the present administration under President Aquino is supposedly fighting out.

Pangasinan deserves an explanation. And more importantly, Pangasinan — one of the biggest provinces in the country in terms of land area and population and one of the top producers of valuable agricultural goods such as rice and corn — deserves a police leader. The vacuum at the Provincial Police Office could soon take its toll in the morale of the force and the overall peace and order situation in Pangasinan.

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Lacson vs Singson?

CAN you believe the bunkhouses built in Tacloban were overpriced?  Can you believe they weren’t built according to specifications? The Inquirer has exposed the alleged anomalies, citing unnamed sources.  Typically Inquirer.

Public Works Secretary Singson, tasked by President Aquino to oversee the bunkhouse project for victims rendered homeless by super typhoon “Yolanda”, immediately belied the Inquirer report. “I will resign the next day if the allegations are proven to be true,” Singson said.

Ping Lacson, the newly-appointed Rehab Czar, said he will have the report investigated, hinting that a big time politician might be involved in the alleged scam. We don’t want to see it happen but, if it’s any indication, Lacson wanting to dignify the report might lead to a one-on-one duel between him and Singson.

Is Lacson looking for trouble?

He came to the “right place”— Singson’s Tacloban.

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