Playing with Fire
The DILG should act on BSL’s health update!
By Gonzalo Duque
UP to last Friday—our column writing deadline—or more than one week after the midterm elections, makulimlim pa rin ang panahon tungkol sa health update ng ating outgoing mayor BSL.
Hindi pa rin malinaw ang natatanggap nating bali-balita tungkol dian, lahat halos panay hearsay, kesyo nag-re-recover, nag-iimprove, babalik na raw sa Dagupan… bukod doon wala na.
We are calling on the DILG to fill this “vacuum” of information. It’s the most logical thing to do, we think.
Hindi ba obligasyon niya o ng kanyang pamilya o ng kanyang mga manggagamot ang magbigay ng tunay na medical or health report sa kanyang kalusugan? What are they hiding?
Why are they treating a public responsibility –to inform the city of his health status—like their own private domain? Mali po ata yan.
For one, this column is one with those who are sincerely wishing the mayor’s fast recovery. God knows that kahit we had differences, sa pulitika lang yon. But in real life, we are still brothers. That’s the human, Christian way.
Please do not misinterpret our expressed wish therefore for the family or his trustees to make a real, authentic report on his health. It’s a public duty and responsibility.
And it behooves us all to understand that Mayor-elect Belen Fernandez, though hard put for being pushed in the dark about her predecessor’s health, is just doing what she ought to do to meet with city employees, for what else would she do? Just sit and stand there while the city groans and whines in an air of uncertainty?
And don’t blame the constituency for speculating because walang klaro ang situation. We don’t know if there’s a plot, a gimmick, a trick behind these.
The elections are past. We need to bounce back and buckle down to brass tacks.
Sa maiksi at mabilisang pag-iikot ni Mayor-elect kamakalawa, marami siyang nakitang dapat iayos agad: salaries of employees, unfinished or ongoing projects, accountability, etcetera. Hindi siya makagalaw ng husto because of the “mysterious” condition of the outgoing mayor.
May mga nakakatawa siyang na encounter.
When a market officer Aguedo Sta. Maria was asked about the Malimgas Market, he said the public facility is making P40 million gross profit.
But when he was asked its net profit, Sta. Maria sheepishly replied, “sorry, negative!”
Har har!
See, what we mean? Nadadarak so cuartay ciudad because of mis-management.
Mayor Belen, anta yo lay gawaen yo ompano naisalbay baley ya inaro.
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This attempt to keep the public in the dark on a very basic matter, which is a leader’s health condition, is pathetic. Walang kabutihang ibibigay; it would only stir up suspicions.
In this their way of preventing Mayor-elect Belen from exercising her full powers as our new leader? Agay latan met ya kasibletan, mga agagui.
It’s only a few days before June 30, when by an act of law, the duly elected mayor would already assure her official functions. Sana, our friend Mayor Lim will leave a good memory, a legacy for the city to cherish.
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By the way, we wish to tell those not- so- smart guys who grieve whenever we score in our broadcast commentaries that it’s their turn to look a little closer at what they have been doing for a long time, shooting, hitting and trampling other people’s rights.
It would be a fine reminder to all of us that only the truth and what’s fair will prevail for a long time.
Yong kasinungalingan, maa-unmasked sooner or later.
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