A STUDY ON WASTAGE IN GOVERNMENT. Road widening in many road lines of Pangasinan is now almost complete but in a few months‘ time, the same completed concrete pavements will again be dug up to give way to the relocation of the concrete electric posts that still encroach on the road-right-of-way.

Once the electric posts are relocated and the areas again cemented, these will again be dug up to allow the public utilities to lay down their underground cables or pipelines. Again millions are wasted, never mind the unending traffic jams in the area brought about by the diggings.

This is the result of the lack or absence of planning and coordination among the DPWH, public utilities and local governments. What defies logic is the fact that it is happening regularly and nobody seems to care about the wastages.

Contractors talk about how some officials of DPWH prefer to keep things this way because it means more projects to work on, and more importantly to bid out. Bidding of projects lead to “negotiations.”

But what about the contractors themselves? The lucky ones are handpicked by the political patrons and the DPWH officials can not do anything about it.

You get the drift?

And now comes the Pangasinan section of the Tarlac-Pangasinan Espressway that a former legislator wants to be rerouted even while the construction is already ongoing. Why wasn’t it aggressively pursued while it was still in the planning stage?

If the changing of plans will again be allowed to happen, imagine the millions again lost – Leonardo Micua

 

HWAG NANG PA-EPAL – If you are a candidate wishing to earn some recognition, don’t risk joining a group doing their campaign sortie you know you don’t belong to.

There was this female candidate who attempted to join other local officials hosting a vice presidential aspirant in his campaign, speaking before hundreds of Barangay Health Workers in attendance.

Our trying-hard female aspirant went up the stage and surreptitiously attempted to be seated at the presidential table. People, the media included, noticed her but didn’t know who she was.

The lady, who looks already very qualified to be a card-bearing senior citizen, was later told, albeit politely, to go down, as she was not invited and did not belong there.

What a pity. Para siyang basang sisiw na bumaba. Her presence was not even acknowledged by the program emcee or any of the speakers. But this is a reality in politics. It hurts, of course.

Lesson here is, iwasan pa-epal para di masupalpal.—Tita Roces

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