Playing with Fire
Tough leader is needed by the times
By Gonzalo Duque
WE are getting a lot of good messages and/or endorsements for Mayor Rody Duterte who is reluctantly being catapulted to the presidency.
What does this mean?
It means — while the others led by Vice President Jojo Binay are atat na atat to become president, here’s a guy who is shying away but who is being pushed by the people to the presidency!
The other day, our favorite sports columnist Recah Trinidad broke from his usual sport subjects to say a good word about Rody Duterte, citing Mon Tulfo and former Gov. Maning Pinol’s pro-Duterte stance.
The man who will be our president (he can’t refuse it if all of us go all out for him, hindi ba?) will be at LNU on February 18. Come and join us and be a part of history.
His rounds of the country are due to clamors from all over. They simply love to get to know more about Rody Duterte, his toughness against the locos, against grafters, against double-dealers; and for his advocacy of federalism.
We all know about our over-centralized government, and yet no one is raising a voice against it. Mayor Duterte of Davao City has emerged its champion.
This over-centralization in government, we all know, is a deterrent to progress.
We in the local scene know fully well the ordeal in working for the release of funds from the DBM and other agencies derailing implementation of community projects.
As chairman of the Dagupan City Water District, we are aware of the bureaucratic ordeal we have to hurdle in the following up for fund releases.
There are encouraging developments through that local governments are able to successfully deal with these sisyphic structures.
Take for example the management of our local government hospitals which due to devolution enabled our provincial government to strengthen the local unit.
Let’s salute Gov. Spines for that. But it’s not always like that.
We need a national policy, a system to make our locals strong and functioning creatively and effectively through a federalized government.
It’s a challenge, an exciting challenge to our constitutionalists to frame a charter that espouses democratic representation.
Well, because of these convulsions, we have made some beach-heads in the Cordilleras and in Mindanao with the establishment or creation of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
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In the ongoing — as of this writing — investigation by the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Board of Inquiry — of the failed Oplan Exodus that well, killed the main target — world terrorist Marwan — but caused the death of the country’s Finest 44, we note with great lament that it seems impossible for the authorities to pinpoint with finality the man or men/women to be fully blamed.
Halos lahat may kanya kanyang opinyon sa operasyon, and no one, it seems is telling the truth.
This is what happens if we don’t have a decisive leader the likes of Ping Lacson or FVR or, yes, Rody Duterte!
In the face of seeming hopelessness in the investigations that have all the more become confused — nagmumukha na naman tayong Confucius — everyone feels a great need for a national leader who can and will lead us to a well defined direction… very much unlike the sense that is hoisted upon us. It is giving us the feeling na parang no one is in charge, and doesn’t seem to know anything!
Que barbaridad!.
Kung nanood kayo ng ongoing probe, maiiyak kayo sa chaotic proceedings.
Napaiyak tuloy sina PNP-OIC Director General Leonardo Espina and sacked Special Action Force (SAF) chief Director Getulio Napenas, when shown a video uploaded on facebook of a brutally killed wounded police official by rebels in Mamasapano.
Up to when shall we struggle from this tragedy?
It is in moments like this that we see the need for a great leader in the mold of Rudy Duterte. President Duterte, anyone?
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