Love is blind that lovers cannot see

By Al S. Mendoza
DID Ronnie Dayan surrender or not?

Was Ronnie Dayan arrested or not?

If he surrendered, the P1-million reward money would be forfeited?

But if he was arrested, the P1-million reward money be given to the informer?

The law prohibits police forces to receive a reward if the reward comes from government.

But if the reward is from private sources, the police may qualify to receive.

Private persons have the exclusive right to choose people they would want to reward.

In the end, the VACC, a private group, admitted giving the reward to an informer.

If that informer was a policeman or a private individual, it wouldn’t matter.

Now back to Dayan.

The official police line:  Dayan was arrested.

Some quarters, including some from the media, are saying Dayan surrendered.

But Dayan said he was arrested.

Case closed?

Maybe yes, maybe no.

But to me, it’s immaterial.

Yes or no won’t mean anything.

Arrested or not, that’s all water under the bridge now.

Dayan, for the record, isn’t a fugitive.

He said he just went into hiding because he didn’t want to appear in a probe on illegal drugs by Congress.

A warrant for his arrest was issued and so, officially now, he was arrested by police in Bacnotan, La Union.

The P1-million reward money was reportedly given already to the informer who pointed Dayan to the police.

As usual, in keeping with the rules, the informer was never publicly identified.

Next, we finally see Dayan testifying in Congress.

But as we have all seen, not just Dayan’s alleged involvement as De Lima’s bagman in the drug trade was tackled.

The truth is, the grilling by virtually all the congressmen was centered on the seven-year love affair between De Lima and Dayan.

So animated were the questioning on the duo’s love liaisons that the only thing lacking was the detailing of “steamy scenes” between both lovers.

In their private moments, that is.

The questioning on Dayan became hotter when Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia of Cebu had the floor.

Her grilling centered chiefly on the love affair.

At one point, Dayan said: “Nararamdaman kong alam nilang [his co-employees] may relasyon kami.”

Dayan also told Garcia: “Ang tawag ng mga ka-empleyo ko sa akin ay, ‘Boss.’”

Dayan didn’t elaborate but that could be construed as him being the alter ego of De Lima—thus the “Boss.”

In short, the last Congress show had put De Lima not only in a bad light but in the ugliest position ever in public since the romance broke into the open.

What love can do to the weak of hearts.

But again, in the name of love, everything, anything, can be mocked.

As the line goes, love is blind that lovers cannot see.

Corny, but it happens all the time.  Chutzpah!

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