All systems go

THE assurance given by three senators that there’s nothing that will stand in the way of holding the barangay and SK elections on May 14 is indeed, quite reassuring.

Even if the congressmen attempt to railroad the process in passing their bill seeking to postpone the elections, it needs an approved counterpart bill in the senate, and there is none.  So for all intents and purposes, any talk of postponement is dead in the water.

So, it’s all systems go.

The time is here to make marked men and women of barangay officials who protected and sold illegal drugs, whether overtly or covertly, they who cheated their constituents of community projects by pocketing the funds allocated for these, they who are absentee-officials, they who are bullies and disregard barangay’s own ordinances, they who make their family members an extension of themselves as officials of the barangays, they who maintain and operate gambling in the barangays. Take out the immoral and unprincipled from their seats. It’s time to stand up to these abusive officials who already act as if they own everyone and everything in the barangays.

It’s time to call them out and be outspoken about need for real change in the community, and work hard to have honest men and women with visions of real change elected.

 

Step backward

THE Department of Justice is in hot water.  That’s because no less than President Duterte is angry over the DOJ’s perceived indiscretion allowing confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa to go scot-free.

Citing lack of probable cause, DOJ’s prosecutors released Espinosa et al. from prison.  This is a step backward as it dealt a major blow to Mr. Duterte’s drive against illegal drugs. Only a while back, Espinosa admitted being a drug dealer in a Senate probe on illegal drug trading.  As Sen. Panfilo Lacson said, “Espinosa admitted in the Senate hearing that every year, he was making P50 million and handing out P30 million in hush money to some police officers.”

Angered no end, the President said he might yet throw Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II behind bars “in exchange for Espinosa.”

Aguirre may have been too quick to say, “The President is just joking.” From where we sit, the President appears damn furious.

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