Eduardo Pontaoe
17 Oct 2007

 

 

Governor Amado ‘Espin-off’ Espino is not happy nowadays. His first 100 days is harried by problems he thought was easy like knife on cheese.

The P650 million albatross he took over from Agbayani with a P13 million note each month is driving him nuts. He did not realize that the Pangasinan kitty is almost empty if not yet.

He should be lucky, the magician of corruption from Dagupan – Raffy ‘Excuses’ Baraan – is with him, and could advice him how to play the shell game. His “agile’ mind not working right. His admission Pangasinan is overwhelmingly burdened by difficulties on the economic, judicial and medical fronts is hard to bear.

And no solutions in sight, what would happen to his much heralded agenda, his plan of a Pangasinan arising from the morass of an Agbayani ineptitude.

He’ll ride the rapids like what his predecessors had done him before him. Swim the chimp game. His conscience is bothering him.

The capital murder of Mayor Resuello remained in the cold case files and no solution in sight and goes with it Conrado Soriano’s wipe-out.

That should tell everybody the performances of Bataoil and Nerez are below par, their uniforms decked in ribbons are good only before the microphones.

If they cannot solve crimes on a platter how can the people entrust their safety with the burgeoning criminal activity in Pangasinan? Is it time for everyone to buy and license a gun?

His eyes are now wide open. He just woke up from deep slumber that the airport he wanted built in Pangasinan especially Santa Barbara, is not economically feasible.

He learned that tourism which he based his undying belief cannot be attended. The excessively low tourism turnout couldn’t make ends meet. The tourists coming from overseas are flying south in droves. What’s there to see in Pangasinan?

He bites his tongue. His words, “We ordered the eradication of jueteng and the PNP campaigns forced the jueteng lords to resort to guerilla operation”. By his own words, nothing was stopped or eradicated and the way he talks jueteng is a quasi-legal operation.

In reality, nobody went below ground; every jueteng pull is done above ground under the very noses of the PNP. Connections to Urduja have its advantages so it may seem.

Delusionary, Mr. Governor?